Tag: space tourism
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How to watch the countdown to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin suborbital space trip (and why)
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship sits on its pad in preparation for a test flight in 2018. (Blue Origin Photo) UPDATE: ‘Best day ever!’ Blue Origin sends Jeff Bezos on suborbital trip with oldest and youngest spacefliers Original story: VAN HORN, Texas — More than two decades after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos created Blue Origin,…
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Blue Origin’s suborbital space ticket sales are nearing $100M, Jeff Bezos says
Oliver Daemen, Mark Bezos and Jeff Bezos listen to their New Shepard crewmate, Wally Funk, describe their suborbital space trip. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) VAN HORN, Texas — Blue Origin hasn’t yet revealed how much it’s charging for suborbital space trips, but founder Jeff Bezos said his space venture has already brought in nearly…
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‘Best day ever!’ Blue Origin sends Jeff Bezos on suborbital trip with oldest and youngest spacefliers
Jeff Bezos gets a welcome-back hug from his mother, Jacklyn Bezos, while crewmate Oliver Daemen, the world’s youngest spacefarer, is helped out of the New Shepard capsule. (Blue Origin via YouTube) VAN HORN, Texas — As of today, Jeff Bezos is not only the richest person on Earth. He’s the richest person to fly to…
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Jeff Bezos says he’s excited, not nervous, on the eve of his suborbital spaceflight
New Shepard’s first crew, including Jeff Bezos at far left, are guided through a capsule mockup by trainer Kevin Sproge at far right. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) VAN HORN, Texas — It’s T-minus 1 day for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ suborbital spaceflight, and he feels fine. On Tuesday, the world’s richest individual is due to…
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Blue Origin’s space shots give tiny Texas town a boost that’s bigger than expected
A mural painted on a vacant building in Van Horn, Texas, features Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark, who are due to ride Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) VAN HORN, Texas — When I last visited this West Texas town in 2006, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture was…
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After Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin sees a ‘robust pipeline’ of future paying spacefliers
Suborbital space crewmates Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos face the camera in front of a Blue Origin New Shepard booster. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram) Jeff Bezos and his crewmates are still finishing up their training for the first-ever crewed spaceflight conducted by Blue Origin, scheduled for Tuesday, but Bezos’ space venture…
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Blue Origin’s mystery passenger revealed: At age 18, Oliver Daemen will be youngest spaceflier
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifts off for a 2019 test flight. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says the beneficiary of the $28 million auction for a spot on its New Shepard suborbital spaceship is Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old student from the Netherlands. Daemen is due to take a…
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Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charities
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and 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 / 2019) There are only so many postcards you can send to space and back, even if you have $28 million to work…
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A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours
Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity and its mothership (left) are modeled after the SpaceShipOne launch system (right) that was built with Seattle billionaire Paul Allen’s backing. (Photos by Virgin Galactic and Michael Pereckas) The suborbital spaceships built by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic spaceline may look totally different, but financially…
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Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson takes suborbital space trip, stealing the spotlight from Jeff Bezos
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, VSS Unity, fires up its hybrid rocket motor to head spaceward. (Virgin Galactic via YouTube) Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson rode his company’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane into the skies over New Mexico today and did something that no billionaire has done before. In the company of five crewmates, Branson became…