Blue Origin has successfully launched its third crewed mission into space. The crew included TV presenter Michael Strahan, the daughter of the first American in space – and the first furry to leave the Earth. It is the third time that Blue Origin has launched passengers on its brief journeys up into space, and the first time with a full crew of six. Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, was on the debut launch in July. The journeys see tourists shot into space, just above the Karman line that designates the beginning of space, experience a brief moment of weightlessness and then come back down again – all in the space of 11 minutes. Why is the space becoming an area of interest for the billionaires ?
