Bezos and his Blue Origin crewmates trained for 14 hours. These are the requirements they had to meet.
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On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos and three other people became astronauts as they flew to space on Blue Origins' first test flight with humans. While NASA astronauts train for months, Bezos, his brother Mark, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year-old student Oliver Daemen trained for just 14 hours.
During a news conference Sunday, Blue Origin launch director Steve Lanius said the astronauts began training on Sunday, two days before the launch. The 14-hour training, which complied with Federal Aviation Administration regulations, was split between two days, Lanius said. It consisted of classroom instruction, demonstrations and practice in a training capsule.Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.