The news comes as billionaire founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, is set to launch into space aboard his company's spaceship New Shepard.... The Blue Origin mission will launch from West Texas at 2pm BST and see Mr Bezos fired up into space alongside three passengers.... But debate has raged between Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and Mr Bezos as to whether Mr Branson actually made it into space on hisSunday July 11 space launch which saw his rocket Unity 22 reach85km( 282, 000ft, 53 miles)