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Jeff Bezos will soon take an 11-minute flight aboard a rocket his space exploration company built. Here s how his childhood obsession with space led to Blue Origin s unprecedented spaceflight. ahartmans@businessinsider.com (Avery Hartmans)
Jeff Bezos will be aboard Blue Origin s first human spaceflight in July.
The Amazon CEO and Blue Origin founder has been a space enthusiast since childhood.
In 2013, he traveled out to sea for three weeks to retrieve pieces of the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
While it s an unusual - and potentially risky - experiment, it s not a very surprising one: Bezos has been obsessed with space since childhood.