On June 7, local time, Bezos posted a video on social media that he would travel to space in the New Shepard spacecraft developed by Blue Origin on July 20.

More than 40,000 people petitioned not to let Bezos return to Earth.

Three days after Bezos announced that he would travel to space, a petition with the theme of "Don't let Bezos return to Earth" appeared online, according to a report on the Business Insider Network on the 20th. The petition was supported by more than 41000 people.

Otis, one of the initiators of the petition, said Bezos was an "evil overlord determined to rule the world". He called on everyone to prevent Bezos from returning to Earth, adding that "the fate of mankind is in your hands."

Supporters of the petition also expressed their thoughts, "the earth does not need super-rich people like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Elon Musk!" "there are also people who ridicule," whether on Earth or in space, there should be no super-rich. But if the super-rich want to go into space, just stay there and don't come back. "

On June 9, local time, Bezos posted a video on social media that he would travel to space in the New Shepard spacecraft developed by Blue Origin on July 20.

It is reported that July 20 coincides with the 52nd anniversary of the US "Apollo 11" spacecraft landing on the moon, and it is also the "New Shepard" spacecraft's first manned space travel mission. The first batch of three tourists to space, in addition to Bezos, but also included his brother Mark Bezos and a tourist who won a seat for space travel through auction.

Bezos has been the richest man in the world for four years in a row.

Amazon Jeff Bezos topped the 2021 global billionaire list with $177 billion, topping the list for the fourth year in a row.

In July 2019, Mackenzie, 49, and Jeff Bezos, 55, officially divorced after 25 years of marriage. At that time, Mackenzie split a 4 per cent stake in Amazon.Com Inc, which was worth nearly $40 billion at the time. This led to a sharp decline in Bezos's wealth at that time.

However, after March 2020, technology stocks have soared, and the sharp rise in Amazon.Com Inc's share price has fully recovered his divorce losses. So far, Amazon.Com Inc's share price is at $3486.9 per share, which is now close to the high of $3554 set at the end of April, with a total market capitalization of $1.7585 trillion, nearly double the share price in March 2020. Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion, according to the Forbes real-time rich list.

At Amazon.Com Inc's shareholders' meeting on May 26 this year, Bezos announced that he would step down as CEO on July 5, the 27th anniversary of Amazon.Com Inc's founding. After leaving office, he will become executive chairman and will focus on new products and projects, while paying more attention to Blue Origin and the previously acquired Washington Post.

The ultimate dream of Bezos, a blue origin company?

Five years after the formal establishment of Amazon.Com Inc, Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. The company's main task is rocket propulsion and launcher research and development. At its inception, however, the company was unknown until 2003, when Bezos and related parties were found buying large amounts of land in Texas, when the origin of blue was known.

In the years that followed, the origin of blue was out of public sight and did not receive much attention.

In 2015, Blue Origin launched a space tourism program, the New Shepard Project. The rocket will send tourists to an altitude of 62 miles, where people can experience weightlessness for a few minutes.

In 2016, Blue Origin launched a heavy manned recyclable rocket program called New Glenn.

In an interview with the media in 2017, Bezos said he would sell $1 billion worth of Amazon.Com Inc shares a year to invest in Blue Origin.

In May 2019, Bezos unveiled a new rocket engine and unmanned lander model, named "Blue Moon". And said proudly: "it's time to go back to the moon, and this time, (humans) will stay there."

Bezos said that in the future, the lander, which can carry 3.6 metric tons of payload, will send supplies to the moon and eventually send a man to the moon. In 2024, the Blue Moon will carry out its first mission.

Another avid American space entrepreneur:Musk.

In the field of private aerospace, there is another American entrepreneur who is also a "space enthusiast", and that is Elon Musk, founder of Tesla, Inc..

Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, which developed partially reusable Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 carrier rockets. For more than a decade, Musk's SpaceX has regularly launched Falcon 9 rockets to take NASA cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station.

In April, in NASA's latest bid for the Artemis lunar landing spacecraft, SpaceX beat Blue Origin and another company to win a NASA contract to take astronauts to the moon within a few years. Under the contract, SpaceX's starship will be used to carry out an unmanned orbit around the moon and a manned mission to the moon, sending astronauts to the moon as soon as 2024.

In April this year, at around 05:50 local time on the 23rd, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts on board was launched from the Kennedy Space Center and will fly to the International Space Station. This manned mission is also the second commercial manned space mission carried out by SpaceX and NASA.

SpaceX's earliest commercial manned flight business is scheduled to begin in September, when Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of online payment processing company Shift4, will join three other passengers in a manned dragon spacecraft into orbit.