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Jeff Bezos will fly this evening for a spacewalk

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is ready to go on a space mission today Jeff Bezos may not be the first billionaire to go to space, but he is about to make new…

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is ready to go on a space mission today Jeff Bezos may not be the first billionaire to go to space, but he is about to make new history with this flight, Bezos with his brother Going into space, as well as he is taking the oldest and youngest astronaut. Before the mission, Bezos has asked his teammates to ‘relax’. According to media reports, Bezos will remain in space for a total of 11 minutes during this trip.

Blue Origin said only last month that it would take its first crew to space.

The five-story high New Shepard rocket has been designed to fly to the ends of space with six people, this rocket is capable of carrying passengers to an altitude of about 340,000 feet. Those who want to go in it will be able to experience weightlessness in microgravity for a few minutes.

In a video uploaded to his Instagram profile, Bezos said that he and his brother Mark will go to space on July 20 on a rocket built by his space company – Blue Origin. And traveling to space has been a dream of a lifetime for him, and it would be ‘worthwhile to have his brother along for the ride.

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Space tourism started

For most people, space travel is like a dream that can never be fulfilled. On 28 April 2001, Dennis Tito had the distinction of being the first space tourist. Tito is not a professional astronaut. Tito is a wealthy Russian businessman who paid US$20 million to the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the American company Space Adventure Limited for a seat in the Soyuz spacecraft. His 10-day thrilling journey ended on 6 May 2001 and he returned safely to the earth.

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