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A 30-year-old aviator from Vijayawada became the first Indian space tourist on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s seventh human flight. Gopi Thotakura, an entrepreneur and a pilot, on Sunday ventured into space as one of the six crew members on Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission. He was the second Indian to venture into space after the Indian Army’s Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma in 1984. The flight lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Sunday morning, the company announced on social media. This mission was part of the ‘New Shepard program’ of Blue Origin and the 25th in…