After purchasing an NFT from the space agency Cripto Space Agency, engineer Victor Hespanha was selected in a draw to make a trip to space. This news was announced on May 9th by Blue Origin, the company owned by American Jeff Bezos that will provide the spacecraft for the trip. The rocket will be driven autonomously (without a pilot) and should reach speeds of up to 3,700 kilometers per hour (passenger planes, for example, travel at the approximate speed of 850 km/hr). Victor will be joined by five other crew members.

Thus, the 28-year-old from Minas Gerais state will be the first space tourist from Brazil and the second Brazilian to go into space – the first was the professional astronaut Marcos Pontes in 2006. The flight will last about 11 minutes and will be suborbital, a modality in which the spacecraft rises to a maximum point and then “falls” back to Earth. In that moment of the descent, crew members feel like they are floating.

Victor’s flight was scheduled for May 20th, but Blue Origin postponed it after there were check problems with the rocket. The company has not announced a new date yet.

Glossary

NFT: acronym for non-fungible tokens, that is, tokens that cannot be replaced or exchanged. Each NFT has a code to use as proof of its authenticity. Learn more about this topic in Joca 167.

Sources: Forbes, G1, Blue Origin’s Twitter page, and
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