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American businessman Jeff Bezos flies to space aboard New Shepard NS-16 operated by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
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American businessman (born 1964)
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New Shepard
Rocket developed by Blue Origin
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Blue Origin NS-16
First crewed flight of New Shepard (2021)
Blue Origin NS-16 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin which flew on 20 July 2021. The mission was the sixteenth flight of the company's New Shepard integrated launch vehicle and spacecraft, and its first flight with humans aboard. It carried into space…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Private spaceflight
Spaceflight not by a government
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Blue Origin
American aerospace company
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