Tag: Jeff Bezos
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After mishap, Bezos vows to press ahead with Blue Origin space project, crew capsule
Blue Origin’s test vehicle in flight prior to the incident last week. (Credit: Blue Origin) Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is promising to keep moving forward with the program despite the loss of its unmanned test spacecraft last week in the skies over West Texas. “Not the outcome any of us wanted, but we’re signed up…
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Reports: Bezos’ unmanned spaceship blows up in flight
Blue Origin test rocket in an earlier test. Update, Saturday morning: After mishap, Bezos vows to press ahead with Blue Origin space project, crew capsule A spacecraft launched by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin project experienced a “major failure” during a test flight from the venture’s West Texas spaceport last week, according to a…
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NASA vet and X Prize creator at the helm of secretive space robot startup Arkyd
With the Space Shuttle Atlantis departing this morning for its final flight, some have lamented the end of an era for the American space program. But a number of entrepreneurs are keeping the flame alive, and one new Seattle area upstart, with some high-profile engineers and backers, is just coming onto the scene. The company is…
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Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, Boeing get NASA cash to build new spaceships
Boeing’s CST-100 Seattle may have lost a bid to house one of the retired Space Shuttles. But, who needs a clunky, old spacecraft, when you can actually play a part in building the next-generation space vehicle? Two companies with ties to Seattle, Boeing and Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin, have won tens of millions of dollars from…