Jeff Bezos reaches space on Blue Origin's first crewed launch [View all]
Source: CNBC
VAN HORN, Texas -- Jeff Bezos is the world's most wealthy person, and now the first to hold that title while not on the Earth.
Blue Origin launched him into spaceflight history on Tuesday, with Bezos riding his company's first crewed New Shepard rocket, alongside both the oldest and youngest people to ever have flown in space.
The capsule carrying the Blue Origin crew accelerated to more than three times the speed of sound before it reached 80 kilometers (or about 262,000 feet altitude), the boundary the U.S. uses to mark the edge of space. The crew will float in microgravity for a couple minutes, before the capsule returns and lands under a set of parachutes.
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