Tag: Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos shared a video of himself reading kids’ postcards sent on a Blue Origin rocket that will eventually take tourists to space
Blue Origin is the aerospace manufacturing firm founded by Bezos in 2000 – a primary aim of which is to develop a rocket for space tourism.
A self-declared space nation called Asgardia is planning a fully functioning space economy and wants help from Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
The leaders of 'space kingdom' Asgardia are holding their first parliament in Estonia. They want Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos to get them into space.
Jeff Bezos is reportedly keen on buying an NFL team
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $111 billion.
Jeff Bezos’ space colonization plan was partially inspired by a 1976 book he read in high school that proposed connecting the Earth and the moon...
The book that inspired Jeff Bezos' space plan calls for building huge cylindrical tubes between Earth and the moon that would house space colonies.
Ex-SpaceX and Blue Origin employees just snagged $140 million in funding to 3D-print entire rockets — with help from Jared Leto
Four years ago, the LA-based rocket startup Relativity Space did not exist. Now it has 110 workers, 280,000 square feet of space, and $185 million.
Jeff Bezos just sold almost $3 billion worth of Amazon shares — here’s our best guess at why
The stock sales are by some accounts Bezos' largest since starting the company more than 20 years ago, and come at a time when Amazon is threatened.
A futurist reveals the biggest ways tech will transform our lives in the next 5 years
Futurist James Canton predicts that big advancements in artificial intelligence and space exploration are coming in the next five years.
Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in more than 45 years — and the reasons are depressing
The last time anyone visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. Since then, there have been many foiled plans to go back.
Jeff Bezos says space travel is essential because we are ‘in the process of destroying this planet’
Jeff Bezos thinks that rather than abandon Earth in favor of another planet, humans could use space as a resource.
The American flags astronauts planted on the moon are disintegrating
The sun has likely bleached them all white and at least partly destroyed their fragile fibers, making them tattered and unrecognizable.