Eytan Stibbe and crewmates launched from Florida on first all-private space mission, expected to arrive at orbiting outpost some 250 miles above the Earth after a 20-hour-plus flight
It was scheduled to launch March 23 with a crew of six, including comedian Pete Davidson, but had to be pushed back, causing Davidson to withdraw from the flight.
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Jeff Bezos' West Texas-based space tourism company has so far flown 14 people to space across three flights, including the Amazon founder himself and Star Trek actor William Shatner.
The world's richest man has a mission to make humanity a multi-planetary species, through a colony on Mars. Elon Musk hopes to have the first humans on Mars within a decade as a 'worst case scenario'
Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano parachuted onto Kazakhstan's steppe early on Monday, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin.
The Tesla CEO, who was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 2021, did offer faint praise of his US rival when he said Bezos has 'reasonably good engineering aptitude'.