A Toronto man who flew into space last week as part of Blue Origin’s latest rocket launch says the experience “defies description.”
“I’m still processing,” Henry Wolfond told CTV News Toronto in an interview Monday morning. “Tears were sort of continuously behind my eyes (this weekend). And I don’t know if it was from experiencing that breathtaking view and the feeling of weightlessness or that it was over.”
Wolfond, who serves as chairman and CEO of Bayshore Capital in Toronto, was part of a six-person crew onboard the New Shepard rocket, which marked the ninth human flight for the spacecraft and the 28th in is history.
The Toronto finance executive said Friday’s launch was years in the making after he decided to sign up for the space tourism flight after seeing fellow Canadian William Shatner do so in Oct. 2021. As a professional pilot, Wolfond said he had always dreamed of going to space, but didn’t “consider it seriously” until watching …