Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, took off aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew. The American billionaire is due to fly from a desert site in West Texas on an 11-minute voyage to the edge of space. The company’s capsule landed in West Texas at about 8:22 a.m. local time, roughly 10 minutes after it launched on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

A 10-foot-tall capsule with large windows and reclining leather seats detached from the booster and ascend beyond the Karman line 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the Earth, where the passengers experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and unforgettable views. They then strapped back in and fell toward the desert ground with six parachutes.

There were 4 people who went on the capsule. An anonymous bidder offered $28 million to fly alongside Bezos but wasn’t able to join them, so the 18-year-old son of a Dutch financier “Oliver Daemen” also tuned in, Bezos’s brother Mark (53) also came along, and Wally Funk (82), a former astronaut trainee. Funk was the oldest person to travel to space and Daemen the youngest.

Jeff Bezos has been selling Amazon stock to fund Blue Origin, which is based in Kent, Washington, and now has 3,500 employees and also builds rocket engines used to launch satellites. Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO earlier this month to become executive chairman of the e-commerce giant.

Despite the fight for space tourism buzz, the ultimate goal is to make such trips routine on rockets that are reused like airplanes. The New Shepard booster will return to a landing pad so it can be reused rather than breaking apart in the atmosphere. Reusable rockets are key to lowering the cost of space travel, which could make it more accessible. Blue Origin hasn’t disclosed the expected price of future space trips or the amount paid by the teenager. Meanwhile, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic already has more than 600 reservations at $250,000 apiece! Although we really hope the prices go down in the future.

Bezos says he was ‘awestruck’ by Earth’s beauty as seen from space.