{"id":18949,"date":"2017-05-22T00:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T16:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/how-jeff-bezos-passion-for-space-is-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-entrepreneurs-and-explorers\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T16:10:16","slug":"how-jeff-bezos-passion-for-space-is-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-entrepreneurs-and-explorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/how-jeff-bezos-passion-for-space-is-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-entrepreneurs-and-explorers\/","title":{"rendered":"How Jeff Bezos\u2019 passion for space is inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs and explorers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeff Bezos gets his picture taken with students at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire Photo \/ Kevin Lisota)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited the Museum of Flight this weekend to answer questions from students, the kids did not hold back.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the great things about kids,\u201d Bezos said on Saturday. \u201cThere are always questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scores of elementary-school and middle-school students came from the Seattle area as well as from Deer Park, a city just north of Spokane on the other side of the state, to cram into the museum\u2019s \u201cApollo\u201d exhibit and meet America\u2019s second-richest person (after Bill Gates).<\/p>\n

The kids asked about Bezos\u2019 successful expedition to recover sunken rocket engines from the Apollo moon missions, about his Blue Origin space venture, and about his own life story. One questioner picked up on a report that, as a toddler, Bezos dismantled his crib with a screwdriver because he wanted to sleep in a real bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHave you always been that independent?\u201d the boy asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always been, uh, focused,\u201d Bezos replied.<\/p>\n

One of the youngest attendees, 6-year-old Margot Bouchez, got a chance to ask Bezos whether he came across any shipwrecks while looking for the rocket engines at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Bezos and the others on the expedition team didn\u2019t see any ships, but they did come across some other curiosities.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe saw a soda can,\u201d Bouchez said with a laugh, recalling Bezos\u2019 story about seeing a Pepsi can on the video that an underwater robot sent up from the ocean floor.<\/p>\n

After the event, Bezos sounded as if he had gotten as much out of the encounter as the kids did. \u201cI enjoyed it immensely,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was inspiring to me.\u201d<\/p>\n