In full: Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos launches Blue Shepard to the edge of space

Jeff Bezos says his dream of travelling into space was born when, as a five year old, he watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon in 1969.

Fifty-two years to the day, the Amazon founder and richest man on the planet will blast off in his own rocket to make that dream come true.

Mr Bezos will be joined by his brother Mark and the two people who will become the youngest and oldest to travel to space.

They will also be the first humans to lift off aboard the New Shepard rocket built by Mr Bezos's Blue Origin. There will be no crew on board as the launch is completely automated.

[rifat]

Everyone saw liquid oxygen come out of the end of the rocket. I saw the blood, sweat and tears of amazon warehouse employees leave the rocket. Modern day slavery at the best.

[thefury]

I wasn't as excited as all the Space X or even Virgin's launch. A camera inside to verify them would have made more of a connection.

[YuJay]

Anyone remember that Scene from Austin Powers "It looks like a Giant.."?

[NRocky]

Between climate change deniers and people who think this is CGI, the comment section is not a good advertisement of the US education system.

[justyourfriendlypebble]

1 minute and a half in space, what was the point of this ?

[inbox]

Ah yes the Bezos flying bellend.
1:35 the countdown starts

[krabat]

Where the hell is the video footage from inside the capsule?

[Husker]

I dont want to be negative but none of these people are astronauts they are just rich . Not any of them put any effort into actually going to space its just technology and money

[ukcurlygrl]

Richest man on earth and I cant even take a sick day off work

[afby]

Wow...and he can't even put a Go Pro inside the cabin...speechless.

[ethanhunt]

"That's all folks"... sounds just about right for this utter ridiculous show

[mixrable]

The blue shepard feels like an amazon basics knockoff of the spacex ships. Gets the job done, but low quality

[ergunkurkcu]

Virgin galactic feels like v0.1 spaceship whereas blue origin feels like an expensive roller-coaster

[kskufan]

Global warming is so dire that the richest man on the planet is taking joy rides to space on his carbon - spewing rocket.

[samuraixfx]

Person at the end is remarkably still through the window...

[willieraysor]

So why didnt we see inside the craft like with Branson? Even falcon 9 films inside.

[xeniosm]

That landing looked painful! Virgin's was definitely more elegant stuff.
Btw, please tell me they installed cameras inside???

[marcpendergrast]

Space? No. Barely sub space. Weightlessness occours in free fall.
What a bunch of rich suckers.

[mobaby]

Billionaires should not exist. Period.

[tongbunsing]

I don't call this as the space travel. The real space travel is the Virgin one. Richard can float on his spaceship and experiencing weightless condition. That's the real space traveling. This is just going to the air and doing parachute. Useless Jeff.