Akshata Sharma
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"I can't describe how it is to look into space... everybody should go to space. It was good to see Earth from the other side." That's what 30-year-old Indian-origin entrepreneur and pilot Gopichand Thotakura said after completing his first space flight.
Thotakura made history by becoming the first Indian space tourist as part of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin NS-25 mission.
In a video posted on the official X page of Blue Origin, Thotakura can be seen showing a tiny Indian flag while in space.
"It was amazing... you have to see it with your own eyes," said Gopi Thotakura after his space trip.
"I can't describe how it is to look into space... everybody should go to space. It was good to see Earth from the other side," he added.
Besides Gopi Thotakura, the astronaut crew included Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, who was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as the nation's first black astronaut candidate but never had the opportunity to fly.
Blue Origin completed its seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program on May 19.
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