Amazon founder Jeff Bezos successfully lands on Earth after spaceflight

After a dream spaceflight, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has touched down on Earth. The 57-year-old American billionaire flew on a voyage lasting about 10 minutes and 20 seconds to the edge of space, nine days after Richard Branson was aboard his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic’s successful inaugural suborbital flight from New Mexico.

Bezos flew over 51,000 feet above Earth and crossed the 1000 kilometer mark of space.

On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos blasted into space on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board. The Amazon founder was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother Mark, an 18-year-old named Oliver Daeman from the Netherlands, and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer named Wally Funk from Texas, the youngest and oldest to ever fly in space.

Named after America’s first astronaut, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket soared from remote West Texas on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, a date chosen by Bezos for its past significance.