Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark will be on board the New Shepard vehicle's first crewed flight on 20 July The Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said he will fly to space with his brother on the first ...

She declined to comment on whether Mr Bezos himself might be on the 20 July flight. Blue Origin's announcement is further evidence of a resurgence in space tourism after a gap of almost 12 years.

Blue Origin—unlike Elon Musk's Space X—is a suborbital flight. It blasts up to 62 miles, and then the rocket enters space for five minutes. The entire trip - from launch to landing - lasts 720 ...

Last year, ultra-rich jet owners – including the likes of pop star Taylor Swift and Amazon founder Bezos – flew for almost 26,000 hours over 4,301,561 individual flights. However ...

That same desire undergirded Jeff Bezos's roughly 10-minute flight aboard Blue Origin 's New Shepard rocket. Bezos, the world's richest man and founder of spaceflight company Blue Origin ...

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fellow astronauts have started the training process ahead of their flight to the edge of space on Tuesday, Blue Origin officials announced at a press ...

The flight took off from the company's West Texas ... furthering its role in the emerging space tourism industry. The Jeff Bezos-led company has been launching paying customers to space on brif ...

Last month, de Vries visited space on a 11-minute flight with "Star Trek" actor William Shatner and two other crewmates, launched by Jess Bezos' company Blue Origins. "He brought so much life and ...

Richard Branson successfully traveled to the edge of space on Sunday, and Jeff Bezos isn’t far behind. But the two billionaire founders’ spacecrafts, flight logistics and altitudes have some ...