With Whom Is Jeff Bezos Travelling To Space?

Passengers who want to fly in the New Shepard capsule must sign a form to waiver their rights to sue the space company he founded ten years ago in the event of an accident. Branson is demanding similar steps from Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc (SPCE: 088) (SPCE: 088), which plans to send paying passengers next year on its space plane. In 2004, the Congress agreed to allow the space tourism industry to speed up its preparations for passenger flights.

The first manned flight of the suborbital vehicle New Shepard is scheduled for 20 July, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Blue Origin, the main competitor for suborbital tourist flights, Virgin Galactic, is also making progress flying its paying customers. Blue Origin's suborbational flight is scheduled to take off from a launch pad in West Texas on July 20 - the anniversary of Apollo 11.

The flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule, named after Alan Shepard, first American in space, will take approximately 10 minutes — five minutes less than Shepard's historic trip in 1961 in a Mercury capsule. A passenger capsule is set to detach from a booster rocket and fly over the Karman Line, the internationally recognized boundary between space and more than 62 miles above Earth, before entering the Earth's atmosphere and re-entering it.

Bezos and Blue Origin have described their flight this month as the final stage in the yearlong race by two of the world's richest rocket engineers to space. Virgin Galactic has launched its rockets, ships and planes to reach altitudes of 55 miles (88 kilometers).

On Thursday, Virgin Galactic announced that its founder Sir Richard Branson will try to launch billionaire Jeff Bezos to space later this month. Funk, an American airman 82 years old, was last seen in 2010 as the Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise Spacecraft made its first public landing.

Amazon billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he and his brother Mark will embark on the first manned space flight next month aboard his rocket company Blue Origin. The Amazon boss, who is also chairman of Virgin Galactic, will be joined by the winner of an auction for a seat on the plane that will take the company to the moon and back. The announcement confirms a rumour that circulated in early June when founder Sir Richard Branson said he would fly a 20-minute flight into space with an 82-year-old female pilot in a plane designed by his aerospace company Blue Origin on July 20.

Jeff Bezos will fly into space on the first manned flight of New Shepard, a rocket designed by his Blue Origin Space Company. The rocket, developed by Bezos himself, has completed 15 test flights, but none with passengers. The flight is scheduled for July 20, 15 days before Bezos is due to step down as CEO of Amazon.

Jeff Bezos today said he will go into space on July 20, just 15 days after stepping down as CEO of Amazon. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will go into space on July 20 -- 15 days before he gets his golden watch and not exactly 52 years after Apollo 11 landed the first humans on the moon -- where he will be aboard the Blue Origin rocket, a company that competes with SpaceX and the new Shepard spacecraft as Blue Origin on its first manned flight. Bezos has props for the ascent as private companies such as SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin work to build a new space tourism industry in which consumers open up their wallets to buy seats on rockets that go up and down.

Bezoss will travel in a six-seat capsule on a 59-foot rocket and take an 11-minute flight to reach more than 60 miles above Earth. The capsule will carry up to six passengers, though Amazon has not revealed who will be on board.

Jeff Bezos has abandoned himself since stepping down as Amazon chief executive in early July. Bezos, who stepped down as chief executive of Amazon 15 days before the flight, and his company Amazon Blue Origin have been compared to space tourists, the stunt flight that revived the early days of aviation. The mission, scheduled for July 20, will be flown by Bezos himself, who will become Amazon's chief executive after leaving the CEO job.

Jeff Bezos will be one of the first passengers on his space firm Blue Origin's new Shepard spacecraft. When he boards the New Shepard capsule next month for his first trip into space, his safety will be in the hands of the space company he founded nearly two decades ago. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Monday in an Instagram video that he and his brother Mark Bezos will be members of the first crew of the manned flight of New Shepard when the spacecraft launches from West Texas on July 20. The Bezos brothers will be among the first passengers aboard the spacecraft.

Jeff Bezos plans to join a small group of tourists flying into space, an emerging industry preparing to launch hundreds of people into space. His journey will make him one of the few amateurs to have flown into space. But they are not protected by the meticulous federal regulations that govern commercial air travel.

Virgin Galactics' Richard Branson, 70, plans to fly his own plane into space and launch a rocket later this year for another test flight from New Mexico. The company has just completed its third uncrewed test flight into space in two weeks, and they don't want Branson aboard until they have proved otherwise.

The capsule with passengers on board will separate from its booster at a distance of about 250,000 feet. About two minutes into the flight the rocket will reach Mach 3 or triple the sound speed - and the crew will feel the force of this speed.