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Lauren Sanchez, 52, is on the point of head to area in 2023. The girlfriend of Jeff Bezos, 58, lately sat down with CNN for her first ever joint interview along with her Amazon founder beau and talked about every kind of subjects, together with how attainable she believes area journey is. Jeff, who additionally based aerospace producer and spaceflight providers firm Blue Origin, stated he believes everybody will have the ability to go to area sooner or later earlier than Lauren talked about her plans to move there with an all-female crew.
“It’ll be a great group of females,” Lauren stated in regards to the journey. “I do [believe space travel will be attainable for everyone],” Jeff added. “Let me give you an example. The Wright brothers flew this tiny little plane, just a couple hundred feet. And if you told the Wright brothers a hundred years from now, there’s going be a 787 that carries 400 people, they’d laugh.”
In addition to speaking about area, Jeff and Lauren opened up about their charitable work and the way Jeff, who’s a billionaire, plans on donating most of his cash to these in want all through his life. Last week, they awarded nation music singer Dolly Parton the Bezos Courage & Civility Award, a $100 million grant given to a person they really feel is making an attempt to make the world a greater place. She was the third recipient of the celebrated honor they usually each felt enthusiastic about serving to make a distinction.
“The work that we’re doing with the Bezos Courage and Civility Award I think needs to have a voice,” Lauren stated. “And the people that we’ve chosen so far, Van Jones, Jose Andres, Dolly Parton, they all have such stories to tell. I just feel honored to be able to be a part of what they’re doing for this world.”
Lauren and Jeff didn’t solely speak about enterprise throughout their newest interview. They additionally talked about their personal relationship, which began round late 2018, and the way a lot they “love” one another. “Lauren is the most generous, most big-hearted person that you would ever meet. So, she is an inspiration in that way,” the smitten businessman stated. “She never misses a birthday. The network of people that she gives birthday presents to is gigantic. And that’s just a small example.”
“We can be kind of boring,” Lauren added whereas laughing. “I would say normal. We have dinner with the kids. That’s always fun and a great conversation. There’s seven between us, so there’s a lot of discussion. And then we watch a movie … by committee. It takes a long time to find that movie.”