Spacewatch: Bezos's Blue Origin 'really close' to flying humans

Space travel company, which plans to take six people on a sub-orbital flight, completes its 14th mission

Jeff Bezos's space travel company, Blue Origin, says it is getting really close" to flying humans after the successful completion of its 14th mission into space on 14 January.

The New Shepard rocket blasted off at 1717 GMT (1117 CST) from the company's private launch site in west Texas, carrying an upgraded crew capsule containing a test dummy dubbed Mannequin Skywalker". Following its separation from the booster, the crew capsule reached an altitude of 66 miles (107km) above mean sea level, placing it 4.3 miles (7km) higher than the Karman line, the official boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space.