Jeff Bezos launches into space

We get all the reaction to the first human space flight of New Shepard, a suborbital rocket system developed by Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company Blue Origin. The Amazon founder will be joined by his brother Mark, along with 82-year-old Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed NASA's astronaut training program in the 1960s but were denied the chance to become astronauts themselves because of their gender. We speak to a friend of Wally Funk.

And we look at the impact of the Pegasus malware, said to be being used in various countries to target rights activists, journalists and lawyers.

And Dr Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases physician and scientist from the University of Toronto, give his take on the latest Coronavirus headlines and answers questions from listeners. Send your questions in via WhatsApp on +447730 751925.

(Photo: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark board ahead of their scheduled flight aboard Blue Origin"s New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas, U.S. July 20, 2021. Credit: Blue Origin/Reuters)