Tag: Blue Origin
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John Glenn hails Jeff Bezos’ space feats in letter written days before astronaut’s death
Jeff Bezos shows off the concept for Blue Origin’s launch system during a news conference in Florida in September 2015. The rocket is named after John Glenn. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos accepted yet another award tonight for his Blue Origin space effort, but the prize he treasured the most is no doubt…
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Jeff Bezos shows how Blue Origin’s orbital rocket factory is taking shape in Florida
The steel structure for Blue Origin’s factory rises from a site in Florida. (Blue Origin Photo via Jeff Bezos) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off the “extraordinary progress” being made on the Florida factory where Blue Origin’s New Glenn orbital launch vehicle will be built. “As you can see here, the first steel is…
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos gets all geeky over Blue Origin’s robotic rocket drilling machine
Blue Origin’s EDM drilling machine works on a nozzle for the BE-4 rocket engine, currently under development at the company’s production facility in Kent, Wash. “Only 1,000 holes to go,” Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos writes. (Blue Origin Photo) Building a rocket ship may sound romantic, but there are a lot of nitty-gritty details behind…
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Where does Jeff Bezos foresee putting space colonists? Inside O’Neill cylinders
This artist’s conception from the 1970s shows the interior of an O’Neill cylinder. (Credit: NASA) SpaceX’s Elon Musk wants to settle humans on Mars. Others talk about a Moon Village. But Seattle billionaire Jeff Bezos has a different kind of off-Earth home in mind when he talks about having millions of people living and working in…
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Gradatim Ferociter! Jeff Bezos explains Blue Origin’s motto, logo … and the boots
Blue Origin’s coat of arms is packed with symbolism. (Credit: Blue Origin) You can’t buy stuff from billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture on Amazon just yet, but just wait: Sixteen years after its founding, Blue Origin offers enough symbols, mottos and mascots to keep the folks who make caps, shirts, coffee mugs – and yes, even cowboy…
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Video: Jeff Bezos shares big ideas, from Amazon’s drone landing pads to a 10,000-year clock
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos shows off a tortoise cufflink during the Pathfinder Awards banquet at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. The tortoise symbolizes the approach Bezos takes with his Blue Origin space venture. “We believe slow is smooth, and smooth is fast,” he says. (Credit: Tania Shepard / Azzura Photography) Someday, you’ll be printing out a…
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos compares space to internet, and he’ll build the infrastructure
Jeff Bezos says he plans to spend his “Amazon winnings” on Blue Origin’s effort to build the heavy lifting infrastructure for space ventures. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he’s trying to do for outer-space ventures what delivery services and the internet did for him: provide the “heavy lifting infrastructure” that will make it…
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Jeff Bezos marks retirement of Blue Origin New Shepard space capsule with a tortoise
A worker at Blue Origin stencils the seventh and last tortoise onto what Jeff Bezos calls a “hardy and stalwart” New Shepard space capsule. (Credit: Jeff Bezos via Twitter) After seven launches, Blue Origin’s first New Shepard suborbital space capsule is getting a send-off from the company’s founder, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. To celebrate last…
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Privately-developed rocket aces abort test
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, launched a dramatic flight test over West Texas on Wednesday to verify the performance of an escape system on its reusable suborbital launcher designed to loft space tourists, researchers and commercial astronauts on short rides to the edge of space. The stubby, single-stage New Shepard…
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Privately-developed rocket aces abort test
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, launched a dramatic flight test over West Texas on Wednesday to verify the performance of an escape system on its reusable suborbital launcher designed to loft space tourists, researchers and commercial astronauts on short rides to the edge of space. The stubby, single-stage New Shepard…