Van Horn, Texas. Jeff Bezos (of Amazon and Blue Origin) and his brother Mark, along with Wally Funk (formerly of Mercury 13, an unofficial candidate for space travel in the 1960s) and Dutchman Oliver Daemen, reached space for four minutes on a suborbital flight on the reusable New Shepard launch vehicle, with vertical takeoff and landing. This was the first completely private flight for tourism.



