WATCH LIVE: Jeff Bezos Launches Into Space on Blue Origin Space Flight

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, took a flight into space today on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin.

Liftoff was scheduled for just after 9 a.m. ET on Tuesday. You can watch here:

The 11-minute flight went up, up, and up more than 60 miles above Earth, just nine days after Richard Branson became the first person to ride into space aboard a rocket he helped to fund.

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Bezos was be joined by fellow astronauts: his brother Mark Bezos, pilot Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.

Takeoff happened from Blue Origin's facilities at an extremely remote plot of land near Van Horn, Texas, which is about two hours from El Paso.

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