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"Mannequin Skywalker" in space strapped into Blu Origin's New Shepard rocket.
On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight company $4 and safely returned it to Earth.
It was one short flight for a dummy, but could portend a big leap for humankind.
Mannequin Skywalker rode aboard New Shepard, a prototype rocket being developed by Blue Origin. This was the seventh safe trip of the rocket. Blue Origin hopes it will one day take human crews into orbit, giving passengers a few minutes of zero-gravity flight and views of the Earth.
On Thursday afternoon, $4 to share the full, eleven-minute video of Mannequin Skywalker's flight. The video lets you see out the window as the dummy takes off, zooms into space, and then safely returns planetside.
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Bezos promises future customers will have a better experience than the dummy's.
"Unlike him, you'll be able to get out of your seat during the zero gee part of the flight," $4. "And ignore the pinging sound - it's just from one of the experiments on this flight.