Click to enlarge: An email to GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser this week from a comedian and internet troll posing as Jackie Bezos, mother of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire screen capture) In my five-plus years at GeekWire, I’ve often wondered what it would take to get Jeff Bezos’ attention and how I’d react if the … Read more
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
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (wearing a cowboy hat) with Jose Andres (left of Bezos) and Van Jones (right of Bezos), recipients of $ 100 million charitable gifts from Bezos, announced after his Blue Origin flight into space on Tuesday . (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) After what some critics call the world’s most expensive midlife … 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 unveils a model of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in 2019 (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Jeff Bezos may step back from his CEO role at Amazon, but now he needs to feel the heat at Blue Origin, the privately held space company he founded in 2000. The next 31 days could … Read more
Upcoming Amazon CEO Andy Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos on July 5th (GeekWIre Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will join the company’s board of directors as he takes over Jeff Bezos as Amazon’s new CEO on July 5, the company said in a new filing on Friday. Jassy, who joined … Read more
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, laughs while traveling to India in 2020. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Between an upswing in cartel talks and questions about employee turnover, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a lot to fear here on earth. His plans to go suborbitally next month in a rocket ship built by … 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
He already has the tuxedo, now Jeff Bezos has Bond too. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Bezos. Jeff Bezos. Doesn’t quite sound like the introduction of a certain British secret agent. But that’s not something that $ 8.5 billion can’t fix, is it? No sooner had Amazon announced its multi-billion dollar bid to acquire … Read more