The flight comes nine days after rival Richard Branson, the British billionaire businessman, was aboard his company Virgin Galactic`s rocket plane for its pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico.
Bezos sought to downplay any rivalry with Branson. There`s one person who was the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. And that happened a long time ago, Bezos said on the NBC`s program Today, referring to the Soviet cosmonaut who reached space in 1961. I think I`m going to be number 570 or something. That`s where we`re going to be in this list. So this isn`t a competition. This is about building a road to space so that future generations can do incredible things in space, Bezos said.
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