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Detailed explanation-1: -Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000-two years before Elon Musk started the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX.

Detailed explanation-2: -Blue Origin is a private spaceflight company based in Kent, Wash., and started in 2000 by Amazon’s founder and executive chairman, Jeff Bezos. The organization’s goal is to create a future where people live and work in space to benefit Earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -So far, Blue Origin has only conducted flights of its much smaller New Shepard suborbital rocket. That rocket has been used to carry paying customers-and last summer, Bezos himself-on brief, supersonic joy rides that reach the edge of what is technically considered space.

Detailed explanation-4: -Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O’Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry, and Steve Young. The NS-22 crew.