Professor Louis Brennan, a specialist in the commercial spaceflight industry, told MailOnline.
Even if space millionaires preach about democratizing space, the current crew’s makeup does not span socioeconomic boundaries.
“In that regard, the opinion that this is just another multibillionaire vanity project is definitely understandable.”
Similarly, the project’s wastefulness upset many on social media.
‘Yet again, millionaires and billionaires demonstrate their utter ignorance of the real world.
It is absurd that the people who might have been fed with the money that Blue Origin is burning for eleven minutes,’ one commentator wrote.