American businessman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos" id="mwAbg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jeff Bezos">Jeff Bezos</a> flies to space aboard <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard" id="mwAbk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New Shepard">New Shepard</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin_NS-16" id="mwAbo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Blue Origin NS-16"> NS-16</a> operated by his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_spaceflight" id="mwAbs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Private spaceflight">private spaceflight</a> company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin" id="mwAbw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Blue Origin">Blue Origin</a>.<sup about="#mwt69" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"}}' id="cite_ref-12" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./July_20#cite_note-12" id="mwAb0" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 12;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAb4">[12]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-12"><cite about="#mwt66" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB3U"><a class="external text" href="https://apnews.com/article/jeff-bezos-space-e0afeaa813ff0bdf23c37fe16fd34265" id="mwB3Y" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Jeff Bezos blasts into space on own rocket: 'Best day ever!'<span class="cs1-kern-right" id="mwB3c"></span>"</a>. <i id="mwB3g"><a href="./Associated_Press" id="mwB3k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a></i>. 20 July 2021.</cite><span about="#mwt66" class="Z3988" id="mwB3o" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Associated+Press&amp;rft.atitle=Jeff+Bezos+blasts+into+space+on+own+rocket%3A+%27Best+day+ever%21%27&amp;rft.date=2021-07-20&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fjeff-bezos-space-e0afeaa813ff0bdf23c37fe16fd34265&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJuly+20"></span></span>