Tag: Philanthropy
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Seattle-area engineer and Arizona teacher join billionaire’s crew for charity space trip
Lockheed Martin engineer Christopher Sembroski (far left) and planetary scientist Sian Proctor (third from left) will join physician assistant Hayley Arceneaux (second from left) and Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman (far right) on a SpaceX Dragon orbital flight. SpaceX’s launch tower at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida is in the background. (SpaceX Photo) The…
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Jeff Bezos’ role at Blue Origin hints at how his profile at Amazon is likely to change
Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, inspects Blue Origin’s launch facility in West Texas before the first test flight of the New Shepard suborbital spacecraft in April 2015. (Blue Origin Photo) What will Amazon without Jeff Bezos as CEO look like? It could look a lot like Bezos’ biggest personal passion project — Blue Origin, which…
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Space for Humanity sends out a global call for citizen astronauts with a cause
An artist’s conception shows two high-flying travelers looking at the curving Earth below. (World View Enterprises Illuastration via Space for Humanity) RENTON, Wash. — Space for Humanity is looking for more than a few good astronauts. The Colorado-based nonprofit group today opened up an online application process for expense-paid trips to the edge of space,…
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Earthrise Alliance aims to turn data from space into a resource for climate action
During her stint as NASA’s deputy administrator, Lori Garver visited Seattle’s Museum of Flight in 2011 for a NASA Future Forum. (Credit: Ted Huetter / Museum of Flight) Former NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver helped lead the charge for commercial space ventures, and now she’s leading a brand-new space campaign to address the climate change…
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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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The multibillion-dollar question: What in the world (or universe) will Jeff Bezos do with his riches?
Jeff Bezos talks with students at the opening of the Apollo Exhibit at The Museum of Flight in Seattle in May 2017. One of Bezos’ outside projects involved recovering the Apollo F-1 engines used to blast early astronauts to the moon. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Jeff Bezos transformed the modern economy, using disruptive thinking…
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Hey, kids: Put a rocket in space and win a million dollars in Base 11 Space Challenge
News Brief: Students from colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada are being recruited for the Base 11 Space Challenge, a $1 million competition to encourage the development of a liquid-fueled, single-stage rocket powerful enough to reach 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude. That height marks the internationally accepted boundary of space. Deadline for…