Blue Origin ’ s New Shepard spacecraft
Washington , US
The New Shephard lifts off . Blue Origin is a spaceflight company working to send tourists to space on its reusable suborbital rocket , New Shepard . It was created in 2000 by Jeff Bezos , founder and CEO of Amazon . Bezos will fly on its first crewed flight , he announced on June 7 .
The flight is scheduled for July 20 , the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing . It will launch from the West Texas facility in approximately 11 minutes .
Image by : Blue Origin
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