Jeff Bezos is taking a woman who trained to be an astronaut 60 years ago into space with him.
Wally Funk, 82, has been selected by the world's richest man to accompany him on board a New Shepard rocket, which is set for launch in West Texas on July 20.
She will become the oldest person to ever fly to space.
Ms Funk - who underwent astronaut training in the 1960s as part of Nasa's "Mercury 13" Woman in Space Programme - was denied the opportunity to go into space because of her gender, but now she can finally make her dream come true.
After getting an invite from Mr Bezos, she said she feels "fabulous" to have a chance to go into space.
The Amazon founder posted a video on his Instagram in which he speaks to Ms Funk and asks her to be the crew's "honoured guest" during the mission.
The excited woman accepts straight away and can be seen beaming and yelling in the clip.
She tells Mr Bezos: "I'll love every second of it. Whoo! Haha. I can hardly wait."
She then explains she has been "flying forever", logging over 19,600 flying hours.
Ms Funk has also taught over 3,000 people how to fly private and commercial aircraft.
In the video, she joked: "Everything the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] has, I've got the license for. And I can outrun you."
She was the first female flight instructor at a US military base and the first woman to become an air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board.
In the two-minute clip, she also talked about the programme she underwent 60 six years ago, explaining how she was denied a chance to go into space because she is a woman.
Recalling the training experience, she said: "I didn't think I'd ever get to go up."
Ms Funk, then a 21-year-old pilot, said that she completed her training faster than some men, but the scheme was abruptly cancelled, meaning she and the other women who took part in it never made it to space with Nasa.
She will join Mr Bezos, his brother Mark and the winner of a charity auction aboard the Blue Origin on July 20.
The capsule can reach a maximum altitude of 350,827ft, according to Blue Origin - about 65 miles above the border of space.
The passengers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and be able to marvel at the planet's curvature through viewing windows before the pressurized passenger capsule returns to earth under parachutes.
