It was Jeff Bezos’ space flight

Jeff Bezos will attempt to fly into space on Tuesday, launching aboard a rocket and capsule developed by Blue Origin, the private space company of the Amazon founder, the report said.

Tuesday’s launch will be Blue Origin’s first manned mission aboard the New Shepard rocket. It will fly the world’s richest man and three other passengers on an 11-minute 2,300-miles per hour excursion to suborbital space and back.

The mission will end weeks filled with rocket news and some drama among the world’s billionaires, who are allocating most of their fortunes to rocket development.

New Shepard has performed more than a dozen autonomous test flights with no people on board. If successful, Bezos will make history by taking the first unmanned flight to the edge of space with a civilian crew.

Bezos and three other crew members will launch from Blue Origin’s Launch Site 1 near Van Horn, Texas, on an important mission for the space tourism company.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the goal of using part of his fortune to develop rocket technology for various business purposes. Billionaire and rocket company founder Richard Branson took a private trip last week.

“Since I was 5 years old, I dreamed of traveling into space,” ABC News quoted Bezos as saying in an Instagram post last month, announcing the flight.

“On July 20, I’m going on that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend,” Bezos said.

Normally, New Shepard flies right on the 62-mile Kármán Line, which international space authorities recognize as the boundary of space.

According to Space.com, the rocket will automatically return to the launch and landing site, with the crew capsule descending beneath a parachute.

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