Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion of NASA costs in exchange for a contract to build a lunar lander to land astronauts on the moon. NASA in April awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX with a
For 10 minutes and 10 seconds on Tuesday, Jeff Bezos wasn’t the richest man on Earth. His space company Blue Origin launched into spaceflight history, with Bezos riding the first crewed New Shepard rocket, alongside the oldest and youngest people
1 min ago Jeff Bezos: “Best day ever” Blue Origin After landing safely back to Earth, Jeff Bezos could be heard saying inside the capsule that it was the “best day ever” in his astronaut status check response. He said
When Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Blue Origin, launches into space on his company’s suborbital New Shepard rocket on Tuesday (July 20), and and his three crewmates will rely on just over a dozen hours of flight training. Bezos, his brother Mark, Mercury
This is the largest gift since the Smithsonian’s founding. Jeff Bezos has pledged a $200 million donation to the Smithsonian. (Image credit: Smithsonian Institution) Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the spaceflight company Blue Origin, will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian,
Jeff Bezos walks out to where the New Shepard capsule landed in the Texas desert after a test flight in April 2021. Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin on Thursday revealed that 18-year-old Oliver Daemen will fly in
Bezos will launch on July 20. ‘Can’t wait to join the club!’ he said said via Instagram. Jeff Bezos at the Blue Origin launch pad with a New Shepard rocket in the background. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Next billionaire up! Richard
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will hand the reins over to cloud boss Andy Jassy on Monday. It caps off Bezos’ monumental run leading Amazon since its inception in 1994. Jassy will inherit a company that’s hitting its stride, but also
New York (CNN Business)Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday will hand over his chief executive title to Andy Jassy, ending a more than two-decade run leading the company through its evolution from online bookseller to $1.75 trillion global retail, logistics and internet behemoth.
KEY POINTS Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is targeting July 20 to launch him to the edge of space, but fellow billionaire Richard Branson may yet try to fly with Virgin Galactic first. Virgin Galactic has not confirmed or denied it is