Jeff Bezos’s trip to space technically made him no longer the richest man on Earth

Jeff Bezos blasted into space on 20th July when he took part in his Blue Origin company’s flight into the solar system onboard their New Shepard rocket.

The Amazon CEO has been joined by his brother Mark, 82-year-old space race pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old student Oliver Daemen.

Their short flight to the edge of space, which lasted just 11 minutes appears to have gone off without a hitch and will be a historic and proud moment for Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000.

This is also the latest chapter in the ongoing billionaires’ space race, with Bezos joining the likes of Richard Branson and Elon Musk in their desire to conquer the stars above our heads and maybe beyond.

Blue Origin is still relatively established in comparison to Musk but Bezos holds an advantage over his competitor by being the richest man in the world. Musk isn’t far behind and we doubt it bothers him too much, to be honest.

However, many pointed out that Bezos was no longer the richest man on the planet today, albeit for a relatively short amount of time, thereby boosting Musk’s ranking.

That being said, unfortunately, Musk didn’t quite climb to the top spot, as many of these tweet suggested. French businessman and the chief executive of LVMH Bernard Arnault is the second richest man in the world. Thankfully some folks did manage to check the Forbes billionaires list before tweeting.

50-year-old Musk, who has a net worth of $160.3 billion was actually the richest man in the world earlier this year but he lost it back to Bezos in February after the share price of Telsa fell. 72-year-old Arnault has a net worth of $181.7 billion.

However, Bezos significantly eclipses them both with a net worth of $205 billion.

It’s more than likely the Bezos is the richest person in the universe unless there is an alien equivalent of the 57-year-old off in some far-flung reaches of the galaxy who made their fortune through interplanetary retail.