Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, the company is led by CEO Bob Smith and aims to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through reusable launch vehicles. The company is developing a variety of technologies, with a focus on rocket-powered vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space.

Blue Origin broke multiple World Records with its first crewed spaceflight on July 20, 2021. The historic event launched Blue Origin’s founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos and three other civilians: Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen on a suborbital flight aboard the company’s New Shepard rocket.

The Blue Origin flight set a multitude of new records including launching the oldest person to fly to space (the record has been broken in October by William Shatner, a Canadian actor who was launched on space at the age of 90) , the first siblings in space at the same time, the youngest person to go to space and the first suborbital spacecraft to carry paying customers.

For Jeff Bezos, the most meaningful in this fly is he and his younger brother, Mark, become the first siblings to go to space together and flew on the suborbital spacecraft at the same time.

“Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend,” Jeff wrote on Instagram before the flight.

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