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Oliver Daemen, from left, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk and Bezos’ brother Mark in front of the New Shepard rocket in Texas.
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This week Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world and mastermind behind the retail giant Amazon, fulfilled a lifelong ambition and launched into space.
The New Shepard rocket, designed and built by his company Blue Origin, blasted off from remote West Texas, taking Bezos, his younger brother Mark, Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen and female pioneer of the first space age Mary “Wally” Funk into a 10-minute sub-orbital journey. Bezos’ reusable rocket body returned autonomously to land upright on a launch pad.