Jeff Bezos is going to space

Jeff Bezos is going to space

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and currently the world's richest man and Jeff Bezos is going to space, is going to space next month with his space start up Blue Origin. Like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX, Blue Origin hopes to one-day offer rides into space to paying customers.

Bezos has announced that he will personally fly aboard the Blue Origin's flagship spacecraft, the New Shepard, alongside his brother and a third person next month. The launch is expected to take place on Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The rocket will take off from Blue Origin's launch site in the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas, USA.

However, ahead of that launch, an online petition has popped up to keep Bezos from returning to Earth. The petition is available on change.org, and it humorously lays out the reasons why Bezos should not be allowed to return to Earth, citing a number of conspiracy-theory type reasons in what appears to be online trolling at its finest.

"Jeff Bezos is actually Lex Luthor, disguised as the supposed owner of a super successful online retail store and Jeff Bezos is going to space. However, he's actually an evil overlord hellbent on global domination. We've known this for years. Jeff has worked with the Epsteins and the Knights Templar, as well as the Free Masons, to gain control over the whole world. He's also in bed with the flat earth deniers; it's the only way they'll allow him to leave the atmosphere. Meanwhile, our government stands by and lets it happen."

 Jeff Bezos is going to space

Jeff Bezos has already selected a hobby for his post-CEO life: space travel.

Just two weeks after he steps down as CEO of Amazon, Bezos will climb aboard a rocket made by his space exploration company Blue Origin.

"If you see the earth from space, it changes you. It changes your relationship with this planet, with humanity. It's one earth," Bezos said in a video posted to Instagram on Monday morning.

Blue Origin's rocket is called New Shepard, and it's reusable – the idea being that reusing rockets will lower the cost of going to space and make it more accessible. The pressurized capsule has space for six passengers. There are no pilots.

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This will be the first time a crew will be aboard the New Shepard, in a capsule attached to the rocket.

And it won't just be Bezos: He invited his brother Mark, too.

Want to join the Bezos brothers?

You can bid on a seat on the flight in an auction that benefits Blue Origin's foundation, which has the mission of inspiring future generations to pursue careers in STEM. The current high bid is $2.8 million.