United Kingdom, April 14 -- Jeff Bezos was caught on film face-planting into the ground as he rushed to greet his fiancee on her return from the historic Blue Origin spaceflight.

The 61-year-old billionaire's partner Lauren Sanchez, 55, blasted off on Monday (14.04.25) and the Amazon founder tripped into a ditch near her space flight capsule in West Texas during the live broadcast of the take off and landing -but quickly recovered and embraced Sanchez.

The moment was caught on the livestream of Blue Origin's historic launch and the clip has since been circulating on social media.

It shows Bezos bounding over to the space capsule and peering through the windows of the New Shepard craft, before he appeared to try and head for its door. ...