Blue Origin space launch: Bezos' New Shepard rocket launches from Van Horn, Texas
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched into space with the billionaire, his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen aboard the company's New Shepard rocket. The rocket successfully departed from the launch site in Van Horn, Texas, on the anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the moon on July 20, 1969.