A growing group of earthlings is banding together in an effort to keep Jeff Bezos off the planet, after he leaves it in late July. By Monday morning,

Petition urges Jeff Bezos to blast into space – and stay there

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2021-06-22 16:30:11

A growing group of earthlings is banding together in an effort to keep Jeff Bezos off the planet, after he leaves it in late July.

By Monday morning, more than 77,000 had signed a petition on Change.org demanding the Amazon founder be kept from returning to Earth after participating in the first human space flight launched by his company Blue Origin.

“Billionaire’s [sic] should not exist … on earth, or in space, but should they decide the latter they should stay there,” read the description accompanying the petition, which was addressed “to the proletariat”.

Earlier this month, he announced that he and his brother Mark would be on the first human flight of the New Shepard, a spacecraft built by his company Blue Origin. The flight on 20 July will last 11 minutes and will send six passengers 62 miles above the Earth.

Mark Bezos is co-founder of the private equity firm HighPost Capital, according to LinkedIn, and a director for the Bezos Family Foundation. He is also a volunteer firefighter in Westchester county, New York.