If all goes according to plan, the unpiloted rocket will zoom up at three times the speed of sound, reaching an altitude of about 66 miles above the Earth. The trip is expected to last about 11 minutes. Blue Origin How long will the Blue Origin crew be in space? Mark Bezos will be joining his brother, Jeff Bezos, on the trip.

No test pilots or flight engineers will be onboard, as the New Shepard is fully autonomous. Blue Origin/Handout via REUTERSĪlso along for the ride is Bezos’ younger brother, Mark, a financier and longtime volunteer firefighter in Westchester County. Oliver Daemen will also be joining the crew at just 18 years old. The youngest is Dutch 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, a recent high school grad, whose dad reportedly bought him a ticket on the flight - after the anonymous winner of a $28 million auction for a seat dropped out. Wally Funk, one of the Blue Origin passengers, will be the oldest person in space at 82 years old. The unlikely crew of soon-to-be astronauts includes both the oldest and the youngest people ever to go to space.Īt 82, trailblazing aviator Wally Funk would be the oldest, fulfilling a lifelong dream of going to space stymied by sexism in the 1960s. ET from a launch site in Van Horn, Texas, though weather or technical glitches could delay the launch. Here’s what you need to know about Bezos’ trip to space: When is Jeff Bezos going to space?īlue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft is scheduled to blast off at 9 a.m. The all-civilian crew is expected to shoot up into the Earth’s atmosphere from a launch site in Texas - and go about 13 miles beyond where rival Richard Branson flew with his company Virgin Galactic last week. The world’s richest man will set off for the edge of space Tuesday morning on his company Blue Origin’s first commercial flight. Jeff Bezos is taking the billionaire space race to the next level. Leaked Amazon doc reveals dozens of ways workers tried to take advantage of ChatGPT boom

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