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Blue Origin launches first human spaceflight with Jeff Bezos

[CNET 10 minute version] (CNBC TV, ⁠7/20/21, livestream) Blue Origin, the space corporation founded by Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos in 2000, has been testing prototypes of its New Shepard rocket and capsule for more than a decade.

Blue Origin’s first passenger spaceflight launched early this morning, Tuesday, July 21, 2021.

Female aerospace pioneer Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, then and now, early pilot, late astronaut

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RECAP: The journey was a success, with the company’s rocket carrying founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, female aerospace pioneer Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk, and Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen ["Demon"]. The company will be holding a press conference with the "astronauts."

• Here's how Blue Origin trained Jeff Bezos and his crew for an 11-minute launch into space (space.com)

Jeff Bezos’s flight to the edge of space: Key questions answered

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(AJ) Amazon's multi-billionaire Founder Jeff Bezos [the second richest person who has ever existed] is set to blast off on board his Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle, without his Mexican-American girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew.

Bezos, currently the world’s richest person, blasted off on board his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew – another milestone in ushering in a new era of private space travel.

The US multi-billionaire and Amazon founder is due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on a voyage nine days after British rival Sir Dick Branson went on his competing [edge of] space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight from New Mexico. More

Fake illustration/artist's rendition of flights from earth for "astronauts" (Blue Origin via AP)