The question of which billionaire is going to blast themselves off into space first provided some distraction from the madness these days. Jeff Bezos, who's leaving his post as Amazon CEO on Monday, was long expected to become the first private citizen to leave the Earth's atmosphere but, it turns out, he might miss this distinction by just a few days.

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