Bezos was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer
Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are going head to head in the space tourism race as both billionaires are hitching a ride to space.
Bezos, Amazon's biggest shareholder with a stake worth about $180 billion, will still hold sway over the company he started out of his Seattle garage
At age 82, Funk will become the oldest person to launch into space.
Blue Origin said Bezos and his brother Mark will travel on the first crewed flight of the company's New Shepard capsule