Jeff Bezos and the rest of the crew with Blue Origin Co. will launch into space at 6 AM PT ... and TMZ will be live streaming.
The entire thing -- from takeoff to landing -- is expected to last around 11 minutes. The capsule will take off from a remote area near Van Horn, Texas ... about 2 hours southeast of El Paso. It'll land in the Texas desert, after being slowed by parachutes.
When they reach the edge of space -- an altitude of around 65 miles -- Bezos & Co. will experience several minutes of weightlessness. For comparison ... 's V.S.S. Unity only got up to about 53 miles. FYI, the FAA and Air Force recognize space at an altitude of 50 miles.-- winning the so-called billionaire space race -- Bezos' flight will make history in several other ways.
If successful, Jeff's space voyage will be the first to be unpiloted with a civilian crew. Wally and OliverBRANSON BREAKS BARRIERSWally, BTW, was one of the original Mercury 13 women who took part in training back in the 1960s to show women could meet NASA's standards to become astronauts.
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