Bezos was accompanied by a hand-picked group: his brother, an 18-year-old from the Netherlands and an 82-year-old aviation pioneer
The announcement puts Branson, rather than Bezos, in position to become the first billionaire to travel to space aboard a spacecraft he helped fund.
Blue Origin said Bezos and his brother Mark will travel on the first crewed flight of the company's New Shepard capsule
Is it the unsettling atmosphere induced due to the Covid-19 pandemic that encouraged billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to aim for space trave