Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Who’s the best Star Trek captain? Alexa agrees with Jeff Bezos when Picard drops in on Amazon HQ
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Patrick Stewart, who plays Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek streaming series, share a laugh during Stewart’s visit to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) When the actor who plays the boss’ favorite Star Trek captain drops in at the office, it’s best to agree with the…
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Jeff Bezos announces an all-star team for Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos discusses his space ambitions during a fireside chat at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, D.C. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture is heading up a team of top space companies — including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and…
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‘They’re so inspiring’: Jeff Bezos touts Blue Origin’s space postcard campaign for kids
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin, checks out some of the postcards submitted for spaceflight as part of his nonprofit Club for the Future campaign. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a mockup of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in May, he also unveiled a more down-to-earth…
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Jeff Bezos touts a full-power firing of Blue Origin’s next-generation BE-4 rocket engine
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos is showing off a picture of his Blue Origin space venture’s BE-4 rocket engine going full blast during a hot-fire test in Texas. “BE-4 continues to rack up time on the test stand,” Bezos said in an Instagram post accompanied by a picture of today’s full-power engine test. Getting the BE-4…
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They choose to avoid the moon: Anti-space event in Seattle urges Bezos and others to focus on Earth
Artwork by Kelsey Gallo, depicting an Amazon space shuttle and printed on used Amazon boxes, will be part of the Salish Sea Anti-Space Symposium in Seattle. (Courtesy of Kelsey Gallo) Daniel Smith is over the moon. As in, he’s kind of done hearing about it and the hype surrounding Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo…
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Jeff Bezos explains how going to the moon is harder now than it was for JFK in 1962
Jeff Bezos checks out a framed facsimile of a note bearing the signatures of three Mercury astronauts, given as a gift by Caroline Kennedy. (JFK Library Foundation Photo / Tom Fitzsimmons) Back in 1962, President John F. Kennedy said he chose to have Americans go to the moon not because it was easy, but because…
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Jeff Bezos explains Amazon’s bet on Project Kuiper satellites — and copes with an onstage protest
Amazon’s Jenny Freshwater engages Jeff Bezos in a fireside chat at the re:MARS conference in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) LAS VEGAS — For the first time in public, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos explained the rationale for his risky Project Kuiper satellite broadband venture, during a fireside chat that was interrupted when an…
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Blue Moon and beyond: How Jeff Bezos plans to take civilization to space, starting with lunar colony
Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, D.C., this week. (Blue Origin Photo) It’s our choice: a finite world with limited resources, or an infinite universe with unlimited potential. Those were the options presented by Jeff Bezos this week he laid out his plan to colonize the Moon as a…
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Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Moon lunar lander and shares updated vision for Blue Origin
Jeff Bezos shows off a mockup of the Blue Moon lunar lander. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos today laid out the architecture for missions to the moon aimed at supporting NASA’s goal of landing astronauts on the lunar surface by 2024. The game plan for Bezos’ space venture,…
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Jeff Bezos unveils ‘Blue Moon’ lander
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, reveals the “Blue Moon” moon lander during an event Thursday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, discussed his vision for spaceflight and lunar exploration Thursday in Washington, revealing new details about a privately-developed lunar lander he said will…