Tech billionaire Jeff Bezos took a 10 minute, 10 second trip to space in his own rocket on July 20
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The Amazon founder flew to the edge of space in New Shepard developed by his company, Blue Origin. His brother Mark went too
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Fellow travellers Oliver Daemen, 18, and Wally Funk, 82, became the youngest and the oldest to reach space
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Oliver Daemen surprised Bezos by confessing he had never ordered from Amazon
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After the crew unbuckled, they performed back flips and tossed each other Skittles in weightlessness
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At the end of the journey, Bezos simply said: “best day ever!”
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"I want to thank every Amazon employee and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all of this," Bezos told reporters
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That comment caused a backlash. “Amazon workers did pay for this - with lower wages, union busting, a frenzied and inhumane workplace,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted scathingly