The 57-year-old will join his brother Mark, 53, 18-year-old physics student Oliver Daemon and Wally Funk, 82, in the most inexperienced crew to ever set off on a mission.īlue Origin's pioneering work towards space tourism has come out of Bezos' 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas, which has acted as the base for the firm. The former Amazon boss is today making the final preparations to blast off over the desert in his space company Blue Origin's custom rocket - flying up to 62 miles into orbit, higher than his rival Richard Branson managed last week.

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