Jeff Bezos to Fly Into Space Next Month

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association in National Harbor, Md., on Sept. 19, 2018. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, announced on June 7 that he would fly into space on July 20 with his younger brother, Mark Bezos.

They plan to board the first human-crewed flight of the New Shepard, a rocket made by Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin.