Tag: Jeff Bezos
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Blue Origin sends dozens of payloads to space — and looks ahead to sending people
An overhead view shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifting off in West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, today sent dozens of science experiments and other payloads to space and back on its suborbital New Shepard rocket ship. Today’s liftoff marked the 11th…
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Blue Origin tweets picture from Antarctic expedition, hinting at moon mission
Is Jeff Bezos planning to send a lander to the moon’s south pole? It’s possible to leap to that conclusion, based on an enigmatic tweet from Blue Origin, the Amazon CEO’s private space venture. The tweet consists of a photograph taken during British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s famously difficult Antarctic expedition, showing the ship Endurance stuck…
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Meow! Elon Musk calls Jeff Bezos a satellite copycat — and gets called out
The rivalry between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has surfaced on Twitter. Again. (Musk Photo: TED via YouTube; Bezos Photo: GeekWire / Kevin Lisota) The fur is flying in the broadband internet satellite race. It all started when we found out that Amazon was planning its own 3,236-satellite constellation to provide…
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Jeff Bezos’ worlds collide: Cast of ‘The Expanse’ visits Blue Origin’s space turf
Cara Gee, who plays a tough-as-nails spaceship captain on “The Expanse,” takes a seat in a mockup of Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule. “No one asked me to wear this helmet on our tour of the facility,” she tweeted. “But here I am in a real life space chair.” (Cara Gee via Twitter) Science…
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Blue Origin sends NASA-backed payloads to space and back on suborbital rocket ship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off from its West Texas launch site. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent eight NASA-sponsored scientific payloads to the edge of space and back on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship, marking another step toward putting people on board. The rocket lifted off…
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Jeff Bezos on going to space vs. making Earth better: ‘It shouldn’t be either-or’
John Travolta and Jeff Bezos share the stage at the Living Legends of Aviation awards ceremony. (LLOA Photo) BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and the founder of Amazon as well as the Blue Origin space venture, defended his billion-dollar-a-year expense on space travel here on Friday night in front of a…
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Billionaires leave space legacies: Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen join ‘Legends of Aviation’
Two Seattle billionaires, Jeff Bezos (left) and the late Paul Allen (right), will be honored for their contributions to aviation and space next week at a Beverly Hills awards ceremony. (GeekWire Photos) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has racked up another round of recognition for his role on the space frontier: Next week he’ll be inducted…
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VIDEO: Our favorite GeekWire moments of 2018
Technology Access Foundation co-founder and executive director Trish Millines Dziko accepts the Geeks Give Back award at the 2018 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) In this episode of TLDR, we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite and most fun GeekWire moments of 2018. It was a big year for our…
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Blue Origin scrubs suborbital launch attempt, delays flight to early 2019
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT) Dec. 18 with Blue Origin’s announcement of a scrubbed launch attempt. Updated at 10:30 p.m. EST on Dec. 18 (0330 GMT on Dec. 19) with new target launch date. Updated again Dec. 19 with Blue Origin’s announcement of a delay to early 2019. File photo of a…
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What’s next for commercial spaceflight? Passengers will soon get their turn
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson, center, celebrates this week’s successful test flight of VSS Unity with test pilots Rick “CJ” Sturckow at left and Mark “Forger” Stucky at right. Branson says he’ll be Unity’s first commercial passenger. (Virgin Galactic / Quasar Media Photo) MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to…