https://www.vox.com/recode/22522644/jeff-bezos-astronaut-blue-origin-spacex

Two weeks after leaving his Amazon CEO post, the billionaire is leaving Earth.

Jeff Bezos says he’s heading to space. In an Instagram post on Monday, the billionaire CEO of Amazon announced that next month he will be aboard Blue Origin’s rocket New Shepard on its first flight with humans aboard. Bezos called the trip “the thing I wanted to do all my life.”