Jeff Bezos,
founder of Amazon and world’s richest man, says that he is not very nervous
about his trip to space on Tuesday. Bezos will blast off to space with three
others from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute trip aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard.

“People keep
asking if I am nervous. I am not really nervous, I am excited. I am curious. I
want to know what we are going to learn,” Bezos told ‘CBS This Morning’ programme
on Monday.

“We have been
training. This vehicle is ready. This crew is ready. This team is amazing. We
just feel really good about it,” the Amazon founder added.

Days before Bezos,
British billionaire Richard Branson made the first suborbital flight from New
Mexico pioneering a new age of space tourism.

Blue Origin’s New
Shepard is a 60-foot-tall autonomous reusable rocket-and-capsule combo. It is
named after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space.

New Shepard’s liftoff is set for 1300 GMT from Blue Origin’s Launch
Site One in West Texas and will launch Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Mercury
13 and aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemon to space. 

When
Bezos takes off in New Shepard on Tuesday, several records will be made. Apart
from being the first unpiloted launch, the spaceflight’s passengers include the
oldest and the youngest people to travel to space.

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82-year-old
Wally Funk is an American aviator. She was a member of the Mercury 13 project
and was also the first female aviation safety investigator for the National
Transportation Safety Board. She will be the oldest person to travel to space.  

Oliver
Daemon, the 18-year-old who will be the youngest person to travel to space, is
the son of millionaire Joes Daemon, founder and CEO of Somerset Capital
Partners — a Dutch investment company.