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Watch: Jeff Bezos completes historic flight into space

After reaching the maximum altitude of 66.5 miles, everyone aboard had about 60 seconds to get back to their seats and make a safe return to earth.


Daniel Neira
Daniel Neira - Los Angeles
Senior WriterLos Angeles
JULY 21, 2021 11:50 AM EDT

The wait is over, Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin have completed a successful spaceflight, in hopes of starting a new era of commercial passenger flights into space.

The 57-year-old Amazon founder was aboard the 10-minute flight, and was accompanied by his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old pilot Wally Funk, who just became the oldest person to fly in space, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, a Dutch student, who is now the youngest person to fly into space.

Bezos described the long-awaited moment as his “best day ever,” after lifting off from the launching site located in West Texas.

Blue Origin Launch© GettyImages

The passengers seemed to have the time of their life during the short minutes inside the spacecraft, enjoying three minutes of floating around the cabin, with the most incredible view inside the capsule named First Step.

After reaching the maximum altitude of 66.5 miles, everyone aboard had about 60 seconds to get back to their seats and make a safe return to earth.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Shepard Space Vehicle Flies The Billionaire And Other Passengers To Space© GettyImages

During their mission, the passengers described the incredible spaceflight as “intense,” with Jeff sharing how thrilled they were, as a “very happy group of people.”

Right after the booster landed, Bezos admitted that his “ expectations were high, and they were drastically exceeded,” adding that he was “grateful to everybody who made this possible.”

Blue Origin's Manned Launch Of New Shepard Rocket© GettyImages

He also confessed he is planning to fly human missions twice more this year, now that he wants to share the joy of flying into space with more future passengers.

“Every astronaut, everybody who‘s been up into space, they say this, that it changes them, and they look at it and they’re kind of amazed and awestruck by the Earth and it beauty, but also by its fragility,” Bezos shared.