ITV News published this video item, entitled “Jeff Bezos thanks Amazon employees and customers as he reaches space | ITV News” – below is their description.
Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon employees and customers saying “you guys paid for all this”, after he blasted to the edge of space on the first crewed flight of his rocket ship New Shepard.
The billionaire blasted off on Blue Origin’s sub-orbital New Shepard rocket from Texas shortly after 2pm on Tuesday, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Alongside him was his brother Mark, octogenarian astronaut Wally Funk – who trained in 1961 but never went to space – and the company’s first customer, Dutch 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
Ms Funk and Mr Daemen are the oldest and youngest people to fly into space, respectively.
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