Billionaire Jeff Bezos has taken off for space in his Blue Origin ship

Published on : 07/20/2021 – 3:15 PMModified : 07/20/2021 – 15:22

Head to space for Jeff Bezos. The richest man on the planet, took off on Tuesday July 20 aboard a Blue Origin spacecraft, according to live images provided by his space tourism company.

The New Shepard thruster, with a capsule at its top carrying Jeff Bezos and three other passengers, flew from the company’s space base in the Texas desert at 8:11 a.m. local (13:11 GMT), with a few minutes behind schedule, and should reach space after a few minutes of ascent.

In early July, British businessman Richard Branson had made his first flight into space aboard his Virgin Galactic rocket plane.