An artist’s rendering shows SpaceX’s Starship rocket ship on the moon. (SpaceX illustration) NASA has suspended its contract with SpaceX to bring astronauts back to the moon pending the first outcome of a lawsuit from Blue Origin. The voluntary stay ends on November 1, two weeks after the hearing on the case, according to a … Read more
(Blue original photo) Jeff Bezos and his crewmembers will not jump on board for a suborbital replay on the next New Shepard mission. The Amazon founder’s space company announced on Wednesday that the reusable rocket ship’s 17th flight will carry scientific and research payloads. Blue Origin scheduled launch on August 25 at 6:35 am PT … Read more
Blue Origin wants to send tourists past the so-called Karman Line. The billionaires race for space is big business. The trip is the culmination of a 20 year journey for Bezos with his company Blue Origin. VAN HORN, Texas – Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin missile crew realized their dreams on … Read more
The suborbital space travelers Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos stand in front of the camera in front of a Blue Origin New Shepard booster. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) Jeff Bezos and his crew are still completing their training for Blue Origin’s first-ever manned spaceflight, scheduled for Tuesday, but Bezos’ space company … Read more
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, looks at some of the postcards submitted for space travel as part of his nonprofit Club for the Future campaign. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter / 2019) There are only a limited number of postcards you can send to space and back, even if you have $ 28 … Read more
How serious could the suborbital space race between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get? (GeekWire photos) Jeff Bezos has a longstanding rivalry with SpaceX’s Elon Musk, but now his space company Blue Origin is stepping up the stakes with future space traveler Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – and the Twitterverse isn’t amusing. Today’s escalation from … Read more
RR Auction’s Steve Little yells “Sold!” and completes the tender for a seat on Blue Origin’s suborbital spacecraft for $ 28 million. (Blue Origin via YouTube) A vacant seat on the very first crew to fly Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard was auctioned today for $ 28 million, millions more than the International Space Station’s … Read more
Blue Origin has its winner for its first manned spaceflight, and the winner will pay $ 28 million for the privilege of flying aboard the company’s first private astronaut mission. The winning bid came today during a live auction in which 7,600 registered bidders from 159 countries competed for place. This was the culmination of … Read more
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Crew capsule is designed to send up to six people to the edge of space and back. (Blue Origin Photoillustration) You had to know that the first vacant space on a spacecraft built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space company, founder of Amazon, would be sold online – but a charity … Read more
Over a week ago, NASA placed a $ 2.9 billion contract with Elon Musks SpaceX to build a lunar lander for the upcoming Artemis Moon project. When choosing SpaceX, NASA handed over the defense company Dynetics and Blue Origin. The latter is now challenging the decision. In a protest filed with the Federal Government Accountability … Read more