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Jeff Bezos casually face-planted while running to welcome his fiancée back from a visit to space.
Footage captured the 61-year-old billionaire taking a tumble within the Texas desert as he rushed to the doors of Blue Origin’s Recent Shepard rocket.
Six women, including the pop star Katy Perry and Bezos’ soon-to-be wife Lauren Sánchez, were on board throughout the 10-minute trip to the Kármán line, the internationally recognised boundary of space.
Their flight lasted 10 minutes and 21 seconds and took off about 120 miles southeast of El Paso, at about 8.30am local time.
However the live stream of the space trip managed to capture a unique form of trip.
Because the world’s second-richest man ran to the rocket, he appeared to slide down a hole in a moment caught on a live stream of the space trip.
Bezos hit the bottom face-first and lay flat on his stomach before climbing back to his feet and dusting himself off.
The Amazon boss then waited with open arms before giving Sánchez a warm hug.
After returning to Earth, Sánchez reflected on the ‘complete and utter joy’ she felt throughout the Blue Origin space mission.
‘Earth looked so quiet. It was just quiet. I don’t think you may describe it,’ the aviation businesswoman and philanthropist said.
‘It was quiet but in addition really alive.
‘You take a look at it and also you’re like, we’re all on this together. That’s all I could take into consideration.’
The flight’s roster also included journalist Gayle King, the aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, the feminist activist Amanda Nguyen and the film producer Kerianne Flynn.
Blue Origin, Bezos’ private spaceflight startup, promoted the trip because the ‘first all-woman spaceflight’ since Valentina Tereshkova flew in 1963 for the Soviet Union.
The ladies passed a pink moon, or the Paschal Moon, where our closest celestial neighbour is on the farthest point in its orbit from Earth.
The rocket reached its maximum ascent velocity of two,300mph, or Mach 3.
The duration of the mission was just 10 minutes and 21 seconds.
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