In this still image taken from a Blue Origin broadcast, a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launches from Launch Site One in West Texas north of Van Horn on June 4, 2022. (HANDOUT / BLUE ORIGIN / AFP)

WASHINGTON – Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed launch on Saturday after a New Shepard rocket's back-up system that had not met expectations delayed the voyage last month.

Blue Origin's fourth flight landed successfully in March in west Texas after taking six passengers for a 10-minute journey to the edge of space.

The company's suborbital joyride lasts about 10 minutes from liftoff to touchdown and hits an altitude of about 106 km, treating passengers to a few moments of weightlessness before a descent back to Earth for a parachute landing

"It was an honor to fly this special crew of explorers and true pioneers today," said Phil Joyce, Senior Vice-President for New Shepard.

"Each mission is an opportunity to provide another six people the life-changing experience of witnessing the beauty and fragility of our planet from space."

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The company's suborbital joyride lasts about 10 minutes from liftoff to touchdown and hits an altitude of about 106 km, treating passengers to a few moments of weightlessness before a descent back to Earth for a parachute landing.

It forms part on an ongoing effort by a handful of companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Richard Branson-founded Virgin Galactic that are striving to make space travel a reality.

So far, Axiom, SpaceX and NASA have touted such missions as a milestone in the expansion of privately funded space-based commerce, constituting what industry insiders call the "low-Earth orbit economy," or "LEO economy" for short.

In this still image taken from a Blue Origin broadcast, the NS-21 Blue Origin New Shepard capsule comes in for landing in West Texas north of Van Horn on June 4, 2022. (HANDOUT / BLUE ORIGIN / AFP)

The International Space Station (ISS) has hosted several wealthy space tourists over the years.

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Analysts applauded Saturday's latest series of ambitious rocket-powered expeditions bankrolled by private investment capital and wealthy passengers rather than taxpayer dollars six decades after the dawn of the space age.