Historic Blue Origin Space Flight Takes Off

Watch Blue Origin's historic first space flight from pre-launch to touch down.

Jeff Bezos and crew make history as the New Shepard rocket successfully reaches the edge of space.


On 11 July 2021 company founder Richard Branson and three other employees rode on a flight as passengers, marking the first time a spaceflight company founder has travelled on his own ship into outer space (according to the NASA definition of outer space beginning at 50 miles above the Earth).