Live stream will be available after this brief ad from our sponsors
ContestsEvents

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Is Going To Space

The one great thing about being as wealthy as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is that you can afford to go to space and that’s exactly what Bezos is doing. According to…

Amazon's Jeff Bezos Is Going To Space
David Ryder/Getty Images

The one great thing about being as wealthy as Amazon's Jeff Bezos is that you can afford to go to space and that's exactly what Bezos is doing.

According to CNN, Bezos will be flying to space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled for July 20th, just 15 days after he is set to resign as CEO of Amazon.

Bezos said on Instagram, "Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. The greatest adventure, with my best friend."

Bezos, the world's richest person with a net worth of $187 billion, will be the first of the billionaire space tycoons to experience a ride aboard the rocket technology that he's spent millions of dollars developing.

Blue Origin's flight will see the company's six-seater capsule and 59-foot rocket take an 11-minute flight that'll reach more than 60 miles above Earth.

Blue Origin was founded by Bezos in 2000.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.