'Best day ever!': Jeff Bezos whoops and hollers as he safely returns to earth having successfully launched into space on board New Shepard rocket alongside his brother Mark, Wally Funk and lucky Dutch teen
Jeff Bezos became the richest astronaut after launching to space with Blue Origin on Tuesday, July 20
He blasted off in the autonomous rocket is from 'Launch Site One' in Van Horn, Texas at 09:12 EDT (14:12 BST)
The four passengers were Bezos, his brother Mark, Wally Funk, 82, and teenager Oliver Daemen, 18
Passengers spent four minutes floating in zero gravity in space before a soft return back to Earth
Funk, 82, who trained as a NASA astronaut in the 1960s but didn't launch, is now the oldest person in space
Daemen is an 18-year-old physics student from the Netherlands whose father paid for his flight
He only got the coveted seat because another man - who paid $28million for it - dropped out
Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson became the first billionaire founder astronaut of the space-set
By Ryan Morrison For Mailonline
Published: 07:30 EDT, 20 July 2021 | Updated: 09:51 EDT, 20 July 2021
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