Washington: Jeff Bezos Chairman of Amazon group and wealthiest man spent a few minutes in space in Blue Origin’s first human mission on Tuesday. After the spaceship touched down in the west Texas desert, Bezos said a very happy group of people in this capsule, following a 10 minute hop to the Karman line and back.

The four members’ crew exchanged high fives and hugged family who came to meet them at the landing site. The New Shepard capsule reached at an altitude of 66.5 miles (107 kilometers), allowing the passengers to experience weightlessness while admiring the curve of the Earth.

Barrier breaking female aviator Wally Funk said it’s dark up here, who joined Bezos, his brother and 18-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen, who became the youngest ever astronaut.

Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the goal of one day building floating space colonies with artificial gravity where millions of people will work and live. The New Shepard suborbital rocket named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space. The New Shepard suborbital rocket had flown 15 uncrewed flights to put it through its paces and test safety mechanisms.

Blue Origin’s sights were set higher: both in the altitude to which its reusable New Shepard craft would ascend compared to Virgin’s space plane, and in its ambitions. The company is developing a heavy lift orbital rocket called New Glenn and also a Moon lander it is hoping to contract to NASA.