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Jeff Bezos
, the richest man in the world, is most famous for founding Amazon.
But 21 years ago, the current owner of
The Washington Post
created another company, Blue Origin, with which he is carrying out what he considers his most important work.
This Tuesday, in addition, it will allow him to fulfill his dream of becoming an astronaut.
At 3:00 p.m. (in Spain) his
New Shepard
space vehicle is scheduled to take off from Texas
,
which will make an 11-minute suborbital flight, and in which Bezos himself will travel with three other crew members.
We tell you live.
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Takeoff from Texas
Blue Origin is broadcasting live from 1:30 p.m. the launch preparations from Texas, where the weather conditions are good at this time for launch.
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Crew
Jeff Bezos (57 years old) has carefully chosen his three companions on the first flight with astronauts of his
New Shepard
spacecraft
.
He will be traveling with his brother, Mark Bezos (53 years old), on the left, the pilot Wally Funk (82) and Oliver Daemen (18), a heterogeneous crew that will allow the tycoon to boast of having sent the oldest person into space already the youngest so far.
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