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Bezos Went to Space Dressed Like a Divorced Sheriff

The rocket looked like that. The hat made it personal.

Jeff Bezos wearing a cowboy hat after the Blue Origin flight, from GQ's story
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Blue Origin's 2021 flight produced a global meme trail before the capsule cooled down. The rocket shape did not help. The cowboy hat turned an engineering milestone into a custody-weekend entrance.

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