‘Best day ever’: Jeff Bezos blasts off on his space company’s first passenger flight

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The founder of Amazon became the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own rocket and landed safely about 10 minutes after take off.

, a last-minute fill-in for the mystery winner of a $28 million auction who opted for a later flight. The Dutch teen’s father took part in the auction, and agreed on a lower undisclosed price last week when Blue Origin offered his son the vacated seat.

The recycled rocket and capsule that carried up Tuesday’s passengers were used on the last two space demos, according to company officials. Most of the $US28 million from the auction has been distributed to space advocacy and education groups, with the rest benefiting Blue Origin’s Club for the Future, its own education effort.

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Seriously! 10 minutes including ascent and descent time? Yes it’s an achievement but elonmusk definitely did the whole send people to space thing better.

Cool story...🙄 Now start paying tax like the rest of us😒

Who cares!

And still cannot pay his workers a living wage - hope he stays up there!

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