Tag: Jeff Bezos
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After delay, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin gets set for spaceship test flight on Father’s Day
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is the founder of Blue Origin. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says it’s all systems go for a live-streamed Father’s Day launch of Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard suborbital spaceship, after a postponement due to a leaky O-ring seal. Blue Origin, the space venture that Bezos founded in 2000,…
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Jeff Bezos says a big government ‘prize’ could generate more public interest in space exploration
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, right, shares the stage with former astronaut Maj. Gen. Michael Collins. (Via NASA / YouTube) Amazon founder Jeff Bezos thinks the government could offer “a very large prize” as an incentive to parties involved in the modern space race as a way to generate competition and spur public interest. Bezos’…
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Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off for a test in January. (Credit: Blue Origin) For his next trick, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos plans to have his Blue Origin space venture send its New Shepard rocket ship into outer space and back with one bum parachute on Friday – and live-stream the whole thing. Allowing live video…
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Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s next spaceflight will test parachute failure
Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule descends on the end of its parachute system during an uncrewed test flight in April 2015. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos predicts there’ll be a problem with a parachute the next time his Blue Origin venture flies its uncrewed New Shepard spaceship. He’ll make sure of it. Flying…
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Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos
A view from the “vent cam” on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital booster shows a West Texas landscape during an April 2 flight, plus a “toasty brown” ring fin at the top of the frame. (Credit: Blue Origin) Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in…
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Interview: Jeff Bezos lays out Blue Origin’s space vision, from tourism to off-planet heavy industry
Blue Origin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle at the 32nd Space Symposium. (Tom Kimmell Photography, Courtesy of the Space Foundation.) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t focused on creating America’s biggest online retailer when he was a boy. But he often says that…
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Jeff Bezos describes future space tours – and explains why he passed up a moon trip
Billionaire Jeff Bezos watches a replay of a New Shepard suborbital test flight with GeekWire’s Alan Boyle at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. (Credit: Tom Kimmell Photography, Courtesy of the Space Foundation) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his chance to go into space in a Russian Soyuz capsule – and not just…
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Blue Origin launches same New Shepard spacecraft for third time
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin launched its reusable New Shepard suborbital spacecraft on its third test flight Saturday, successfully boosting an unpiloted capsule out of the discernible atmosphere for a few minutes of weightlessness before a parachute descent to the company’s West Texas launch site. The New Shepard booster, meanwhile, plunged…
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Video: Jeff Bezos shares drone’s-eye view of Blue Origin spaceship’s flight
A view from above shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship rising from its West Texas launch pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Saturday’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the first time a drone captured video of its launch from above. Those kinds of views have long been provided by SpaceX,…
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Jeff Bezos live-tweets ‘flawless’ test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard fires its BE-4 rocket engine for a soft vertical landing at the end of the April 2 flight. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos served as launch commentator today for a risky but successful third flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship to space and back. He even worked…