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Adventurer Vanessa O’Brien unveils pictures of her trip to space on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket

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A British-American adventurer has revealed what it was like travelling into suborbital space for the first time aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket-capsule – and has unveiled exclusively to MailOnline Travel her incredible souvenir photos.

Vanessa O’Brien, 57, experienced the ‘final frontier’ this August and never-before-seen images show her floating around the capsule 65 miles up wearing blue nail polish that matches her spacesuit, with the Earth forming an eye-poppingly majestic background.

The investment banker, who swapped her city career

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BBC adventurer SIMON REEVE describes how he and his wife achieved the miracle they so longed for 

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Ever since I was young, I knew I wanted to have children — a large brood of little ones, with all the squabbles and exhaustion and love that brings. When I started dating my now-wife, Anya, in 2004, we knew we were too old — I was 32, she was 33 — to waste time on a relationship where the other wanted a completely different life.

So we talked early on about the important stuff, and I told her I

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