Tom Hanks Turned Down Going To Space Because It Was ‘Too Expensive’
It was gonna cost him $28 million to go, and he says he can get the same experience at home.
It was gonna cost him $28 million to go, and he says he can get the same experience at home.
He even made a point to tell Jeff Bezos, "What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine, I hope I never recover from this. I don't want to lose it."
From one of the most tone deaf statements from Bezos himself, to parody videos, to Twitter dragging him through the mud - it was a pretty opinion filled day about the rocket launch.
He went from having the dorkiest laugh to something that sounds pretty maniacal.
In an interview from June of 1997, Jeff Bezos talked about how Amazon was going to largely be an online bookstore with absolutely no clue as to how big it would actually turn out to be.