{"id":123499,"date":"2021-06-07T09:23:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-to-be-on-blue-origins-first-human-space-flight"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:23:26","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-to-be-on-blue-origins-first-human-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-to-be-on-blue-origins-first-human-space-flight","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Be on Blue Origin\u2019s First Human Space Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-to-be-on-blue-origins-first-human-space-flight.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos plans to travel to space next month as one of the first passengers carried by Blue Origin, the <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc. founder\u2019s space company.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bezos said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CP0MSOqnYEo\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">an Instagram post<\/a> Monday that he will be one of the inaugural passengers on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spacecraft, during its first crewed flight scheduled for launch from West Texas on July 20. Mr. Bezos said that his brother, Mark Bezos, will also be on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to go on this flight because it\u2019s a thing I\u2019ve wanted to do all my life,\u201d Mr. Bezos said in a video posted to Instagram. \u201cIt\u2019s an adventure. It\u2019s a big deal for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos plans to travel to space next month as one of the first passengers carried by Blue Origin, the Amazon.com Inc. founder\u2019s space company. Mr. Bezos said in an Instagram post Monday that he will be one of the inaugural passengers on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spacecraft, during its first crewed flight scheduled for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}