{"id":17522,"date":"2021-07-14T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-shares-multimillion-dollar-spaceship-ticket-proceeds-with-19-charities\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:55:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T13:55:35","slug":"blue-origin-shares-multimillion-dollar-spaceship-ticket-proceeds-with-19-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-shares-multimillion-dollar-spaceship-ticket-proceeds-with-19-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin shares multimillion-dollar spaceship ticket proceeds with 19 charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_518386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-518386\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-518386\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190829-bezos-club-630x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190829-bezos-club-630x505.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190829-bezos-club-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190829-bezos-club-1260x1011.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/190829-bezos-club.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-518386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are only so many postcards you can send to space and back, even if you have $28 million to work with.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one reason why the Club for the Future, the educational nonprofit foundation created by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture, is giving 19 space-related charities the lion\u2019s share of the proceeds from the $28 million fare that a mystery auction winner is paying to go on a suborbital space trip.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, who\u2019s due to be revealed any day now, will ride along with Bezos himself, his brother Mark and \u201cMercury 13\u201d aviation pioneer Wally Funk when Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off from a West Texas spaceport on July 20. Taking place on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, this flight will mark the first crewed mission for a suborbital launch vehicle that\u2019s been tested 15 times in uncrewed mode.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bezos, Branson and the billionaire space race\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/geekwire-podcast\/bezos-branson-and-the-billionaire-space-race\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Blue Origin launched the auction in May, the company promised that the proceeds would go to the Club for the Future, whose signature educational program involves taking in postcards from kids, flying them on New Shepard, and then returning them to the senders as mementos. The foundation also creates space-related classroom activities and does outreach at public events.<\/p>\n<p>Five weeks later, the winning bid of $28 million raised eyebrows \u2014 even at Blue Origin. \u201cWith $28 million, we\u2019re going to inspire a lot of kids,\u201d Ariane Cornell, the company\u2019s director of astronaut strategy and sales, said at the time.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"callout clearfix\">More sky-high charity: Jeff Bezos is donating $200M to Smithsonian\u2019s Air and Space Museum<\/h4>\n<p>Now the Club for the Future is going to have some help spending the money, and spreading the inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis donation is enabling Club for the Future to rapidly expand its reach by partnering with 19 organizations to develop and inspire the next generation of space professionals,\u201d Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith said today in a news release. \u201cOur generation will build the road to space, and these efforts will ensure the next generation is ready to go even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Club for the Future is offering a $1 million grant to each of these 19 groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AstraFemina<\/li>\n<li>AIAA Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Astronaut Scholarship Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Brooke Owens Fellowship and its spin-off, the&nbsp;Patti Grace Smith Fellowship. GeekWire was among the first companies to host a \u201cBrookie\u201d for her fellowship.<\/li>\n<li>Challenger Center, which serves K-12 students through 40 Challenger Learning Centers \u2014 including a center at Seattle\u2019s Museum of Flight.<\/li>\n<li>Higher Orbits, which organizes space-centric learning activities for secondary-school students in partnership with organizations across the country, including the Museum of Flight.<\/li>\n<li>International Astronautical Federation, which has developed an Emerging Space Leaders Grant Program.<\/li>\n<li>The Mars Society<\/li>\n<li>National Space Society<\/li>\n<li>The Planetary Society<\/li>\n<li>SciArt&nbsp;Exchange<\/li>\n<li>Space Camp<\/li>\n<li>Space Center Houston<\/li>\n<li>Space&nbsp;For&nbsp;Art Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Space&nbsp;For&nbsp;Humanity<\/li>\n<li>Space Frontier Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Space Generation Advisory Council<\/li>\n<li>Students for the Exploration and Development of Space<\/li>\n<li>Teachers in Space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Club for the Future will continue its work on classroom curriculum \u2014 and, of course, on the \u201cPostcards to Space\u201d program. More than 25,000 postcards flew on the most recent uncrewed New Shepard test flight in April. It\u2019s a safe bet that Blue Origin will find room for a few more on next week\u2019s milestone flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,4621,1250,493,4402],"class_list":["post-17522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-club-for-the-future","tag-new-shepard","tag-space-tourism","tag-suborbital-spaceflight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}