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Jeff Bezos plans to fly into outer space by next month

The American Billionaire Jeff Bezos to fly on the first crewed space flight to outer space with his brother Mark from the rocket company Blue Origin Next month.

This comes after billionaire Jeff Bezos steps down as the Chief Executive Officer of Amazon the multinational technology company.

Jeff Bezos will join his brother Mark Bezos as will the winner of an auction being held for one of the seats. The highest bid stands at $2.8 million , five days before the auction closed.

New Shepard the Space tourism system of Blue origin, it is a rocket that carries a capsule to the edge of space, the rocket has managed to flow more than a dozen successful test flights without passengers.

This will be Blue Origin’s first ever human flight to outer space.

Mark Bezos said in a short video uploaded on social media

“I wasn’t even expecting him to say that he was going to be on the first flight … What a remarkable opportunity, not only to have this adventure but to do it with my best friend.”

“What a remarkable opportunity, not only to have this adventure but to do it with my best friend.” About New Shepard

It is a Rocket with Vertical takeoff, Vertical landing, crew rated suborbital launch vehicle which is developed by Blue Origin as a suborbital space tourism.

About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is one of the American aerospace manufacturer based in Washington, found by Jeff Bezos in 2000, the company’s vision is to enable a future were millions of people are living and working in space to benefit Earth.

The company also has a motive of finding new energy and material resources, and move industries that stress Earth into space. Blue is working on this today by developing partially and fully reusable launch vehicles that are safe, low cost and serve the needs of all civil, commercial and defence customers.

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