Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Jeff Bezos gets a kick out of winning the first Buzz Aldrin Space Innovation Award
Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos receives the Buzz Aldrin Space Innovation Award from Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin during a gala at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Buzz Aldrin via Twitter) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin space venture have picked up a good number of awards over the past year, but this weekend’s…
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin picks Huntsville, Alabama, as ‘rocket city’ for BE-4 engine
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines are currently produced at the company’s facility in Kent, Wash. (Blue Origin Photo) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, plans to invest $200 million to build its BE-4 rocket engine in a new facility in Huntsville, Ala., which has been known for decades as the Rocket City. Construction…
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Jeff Bezos accepts top aerospace award and Father’s Day pancakes in one weekend
With his wife Mackenzie Bezos by his side, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos accepts the Collier Trophy awarded to his New Shepard rocket. (NAA Photo) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and the Blue Origin team has accepted one of the aerospace community’s most prestigious awards, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, for developing a reusable spaceship that…
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Podcast: Jeff Bezos tells kids about his vision for space, and gives practical tips for success
Jeff Bezos talks with students at the opening of the Apollo Exhibit at The Museum of Flight. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos fielded questions from some very savvy kids at the new Apollo exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of Flight this weekend. The exhibit features F-1 engines from some…
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How Jeff Bezos’ passion for space is inspiring the next generation of entrepreneurs and explorers
Jeff Bezos gets his picture taken with students at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited the Museum of Flight this weekend to answer questions from students, the kids did not hold back. “That’s one of the great things about kids,” Bezos said on Saturday. “There are…
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Jeff Bezos lays out his vision for city on the moon, complete with robots
Artist’s concept shows Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander on the lunar surface. (Blue Origin Illustration) SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk may have his heart set on building a city on Mars, but Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space vision looks closer to home. He’s gazing at the moon. “I think we should build a permanent human settlement…
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Video: Watch Amazon’s Jeff Bezos talk with kids about Apollo’s space legacy – and share life lessons
Jeff Bezos takes questions from kids at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire Photo / Chelsey Ballarte) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos came to Seattle’s Museum of Flight today to talk with students about the decades-old rocket engines he rescued from the sea – but he stayed to share some down-to-earth lessons for life on this planet. “Be proud,…
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Apollo moon rocket engines finally fill a place of honor at Museum of Flight
David Concannon, who put together a team to find components from the F-1 rocket engines that sent NASA astronauts on their way to the moon, recounts the adventure at the Museum of Flight with the recovered components in the background. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Almost 50 years after they were fired up, rocket engines that…
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How we wedged Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and their space race into an onstage startup
Val Brunetto, Liam Lawe and Zach Sanders take the stage in “The Inconstant Moon,” Marcy Rodenborn’s update of the Romeo and Juliet story for the commercial space race. Lawe portrayed Elon Musk (shown here persuading Brunetto’s character to fly to Mars) as well as Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) I’m the last person…
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Jeff Bezos fuels Blue Origin space venture with $941 million Amazon stock sale
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is sure to benefit from his record-high $941 million selloff of Amazon shares. The sale, executed this week and reported in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, represents just a thin slice of the Amazon founder’s estimated $80 billion net worth. But it meshes with his comment last…