Tulsi Gabbard Had Harsh Words For Jeff Bezos’ Trip To Space
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By Sam Ramsden/July 21, 2021 3:58 pm EST
In the tweet posted on Tuesday, July 20, Gabbard wrote, “Bezos, please stay up there. Do the world a favor.” Shortly afterwards, she added in a follow-up tweet, “The only problem I have with Bezos’ Blue Origin space rocket ship into outer space is that it’s going to come back.”
The comments were shared just before Bezos, the current richest man in the world, blasted off into space on his very own rocket named New Shepard. The rocket was created by his intergalactic company Blue Origin and launched at 9:12 a.m. from a remote location in Texas.
Tulsi wasn’t the only person to criticize Bezos’ mission
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Speaking to MSNBC, Bezos defended his excursion, insisting that humans need to move “all polluting industry” into space. “It’s going to take decades and decades to achieve, but you have to start, and big things start with small steps… that’s what this sub-orbital tourism mission allows us to do, it allows us to practice over and over,” he explained (via the BBC).
