Jeff Bezos made history on Tuesday after the Amazon founder made a very brief trip to space on board his Blue Origin spaceship.
Bezos, along with three others, spent around 11 minutes in the New Shepard rocket which reached the edge of space before returning to Earth.
It’s just another chapter in the space race between billionaires who have been criticised for seeming more focused on sending into space than using their money to fix problems here on Earth.
As you can imagine, Bezos’s position as the founder of Amazon, perhaps one of the most controversial brands on the planet, meant that his little jaunt into the stars above was rife for memes and jokes.
It's been a couple of hours now and Jeff Bezos and his crew don't seem to be showing any adverse side effects… pic.twitter.com/cBH5lskr8v
— christhebarker (@christhebarker) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos should just play against Newcastle, then he'd get to spend ninety minutes in space.
— Jonny Sharples (@JonnyGabriel) July 20, 2021
he sounds like someone trying to do an impression of triple h https://t.co/mpJspxFk2O
— jo 🪰✨ (@thejoannagraham) July 20, 2021
I’m Jeff Bezos and I’m going to the moon pic.twitter.com/hcvPFDd36j
— Meg Turner (@furnacewoods) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos was in space for 5 minutes—or as its known at the Amazon warehouse, your allotted break time for a 16-hour day
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 20, 2021
One small step for man, one giant step for money.
— Kashana (@kashanacauley) July 20, 2021
Jeff Bezos has decided he will not end world hunger today.
— Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger? (@HasBezosDecided) July 20, 2021
congratulations to jeffrey bezos for being the second billionaire to make it to Space Jr.
— soul nate (@MNateShyamalan) July 21, 2021
I was on the F train longer than Bezos was in space today.
— Alex Baze (@bazecraze) July 21, 2021
they have to say human because of scrooge mcduck pic.twitter.com/BQmsz4Ps7r
— Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen) July 20, 2021
If you’ve seen Bezos’s Blue Origin ship then you’ll be well aware that it resembles well... err... the male appendage (this is reportedly quite common for suborbital commercial space programs). We’re sure this was unintentional from Bezos and his team but that didn’t stop a downpour of very NFSW jokes flooding onto Twitter.
Sorry for the aborted launch!!! I’m a bad twitterer.
— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) July 20, 2021
Enjoy this small step for man! pic.twitter.com/6gBHHJLByQ
Jeff Bezos Ryan Newman
— nascarcasm (@nascarcasm) July 20, 2021
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Nice penis rocket now let your workers unionize.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 20, 2021
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Congrats to Jeff Bezos on his successful rocket launch. And also for totally not overcompensating for something pic.twitter.com/fI3OMxiaVQ
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) July 20, 2021
Quite the liftoff. pic.twitter.com/6JzR1Rfu9Z
— Matt Mullin (@matt_mullin) July 20, 2021
I just logged on and apparently Bezos rode a big dick into space? Is that about right?
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) July 20, 2021
There are sometimes signs that people working for a rich/powerful person have utter contempt for their boss. The dong rocket is one of those signs.
— thelaundry (@thelaundrykcstl) July 20, 2021
Others were just unimpressed by how short the flight was.
The duration of that Blue Origin flight was ... approximately one Quibi.
— David Gura (@davidgura) July 20, 2021
wake me up when Bezos spends as much time in space as a dog pic.twitter.com/ebmptQUK42
— Alex Shephard (@alex_shephard) July 20, 2021
Well Jeff Bezos flight was over pretty quick.
— _JustMarie (@mooseandriosmom) July 20, 2021
Ex-wife: The things I could tell you.
Jeff Bezos spent $30M to go to space for 10 minutes.
— crazy broke asian (@tribranchvo) July 20, 2021
I space out 10 hours a day, for free. Learn how to budget hoe pic.twitter.com/OV8CFbPGon
Jeff Bezos spent ten minutes and ten seconds in space. Around the time it took @EdGambleComedy to inflate and pop 41 balloons on Taskmaster. Unimpressed.
— UKTV Play (@UKTVPlay) July 20, 2021
Well, there you go then Mr Bezos. You managed to reach space and also spawn dozens of very crude memes in the same day. Quite an effort there from the billionaire.
