Jeff Bezos ’ spaceflight company Blue Origin performed another test of its New Shepard rocket in West Texas yesterday , this time with an updated , bounteous - windowed crowd ejector seat . On display board that capsule ? A test dummy dubbed “ Mannequin Skywalker . ”

You bonk … like Anakin Skywalker ? From Star Wars ? Get it ? Okay .

Bezos may be avampiric oligarchbut a good pun is a unspoilt pun . On Twitter , Bezos said the dummy , which spent 10 minutes in near orbital flight , had “ a great ride . ”

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

NewShepardhad a successful first flight of stairs of Crew Capsule 2.0 today . Complete with windows and our instrumented test pinhead . He had a great ride.@BlueOriginpic.twitter.com/PZHXWXjuw9

— Jeff Bezos ( @JeffBezos)December 13 , 2017

The International Space Station — which Blue Origin rockets have yet to dock with — plan to screenStar war : The Last Jedi shortly . If Mr. Skywalker plans to assist he ’d havebetter luckflying with SpaceX.

William Duplessie