What’s next for commercial spaceflight? Passengers will soon get their turn MOJAVE, Calif. — The first suborbital space passenger is less likely to be a billionaire like Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson… Read More
How Blue Origin space venture’s HQ2, HQ3 and HQ4 blazed a trail for Amazon HQ plan The process that Amazon went through to choose New York, Northern Virginia and Nashville as key sites for expansion isn’t… Read More
Former Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson leaves Jeff Bezos’ space venture Rob Meyerson, who was the president of Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture until this year, says he’s… Read More
Who will get to Mars first? Oddsmakers favor SpaceX and Blue Origin over NASA If sending humans to Mars is a race, which team is favored to win? Bookies give the nod to Elon… Read More
Attention, Earthlings: Jeff Bezos wants everybody to watch this classic video about settling off planet Jeff Bezos loves to talk about space. And in a talk about just that on Monday, he encouraged anyone who… Read More
Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and ULA win Air Force’s backing for future rockets The U.S. Air Force says Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman and United Launch Alliance have won its go-ahead for the development… Read More
Blue Origin resets schedule: First crew to space in 2019, first orbital launch in 2021 LYNNWOOD, Wash. — Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is now planning to send its first… Read More
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin makes a deal to build rocket servicing center in Florida Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has struck a deal with Florida’s spaceport authority to… Read More
Blue Origin works on Blue Moon lunar trip with Germany’s OHB and MT Aerospace Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, has signed a letter of intent to cooperate with Germany’s OHB Group… Read More
Blue Origin and Airbus back ‘The Moon Race,’ a space contest yet to be defined A new nonprofit organization is partnering with Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, Airbus and other heavy-hitters to… Read More
Economic report lays out strategies to boost Washington’s $1.8B space industry A newly published economic report estimates the space industry’s contribution to Washington state’s economy at $1.8 billion and 6,200 jobs… Read More
Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine wins United Launch Alliance’s key multibillion-dollar backing After years of development and months of suspense, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has won a high-stakes… Read More
Transcript: ‘Chief slowdown officer’ Jeff Bezos shares Amazon management tips When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spoke today at the Air Force Association’s 2018 Air, Space and Cyber Conference, his head… Read More
Jeff Bezos sells the Air Force on Blue Origin rockets and Amazon Web Services Billionaire Jeff Bezos made a subtle sales pitch for Amazon Web Services as well as the New Glenn rockets being… Read More
How Jeff Bezos’ new $2B ‘Day One Fund’ stacks up to other tech billionaires’ philanthropy Jeff Bezos’ donation of $2 billion to his newly announced charitable fund clearly isn’t chump change. But in the world… Read More
Jeff Bezos unveils $2B ‘Day One Fund’ focusing on homeless families and preschool education Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has unveiled his eagerly-awaited philanthropic initiative, announcing a new “Bezos Day One Fund” that will focus… Read More
Blue Origin’s schedule for putting people on space trips reportedly slips to 2019 News Brief: Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith today signaled that the Kent, Wash.-based space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff… Read More
The multibillion-dollar question: What in the world (or universe) will Jeff Bezos do with his riches? Jeff Bezos transformed the modern economy, using disruptive thinking to reshape how people buy products and read books, and how… Read More
Rocket envy? Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spaceship launches a double entendre It’s hard to top the risque rocket scene in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,” but Blue Origin’s New… Read More
Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them… Read More
Blue Origin shows off BE-3U upper-stage rocket engine as its many efforts ramp up Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is sharing a short video clip featuring the lesser-known… Read More
Blue Origin’s lunar lander program wins a share of NASA’s ‘tipping-point’ tech awards NASA is awarding $44 million to six commercial partners to support “tipping-point” technologies that range from lunar landing capabilities to… Read More
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship hits new heights in escape test flight As Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos watched, his Blue Origin space venture sent its reusable New Shepard spaceship to its highest-ever… Read More
Blue Origin counts down to high-altitude escape test of New Shepard spaceship Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, says it’ll push its New Shepard suborbital spaceship “to… Read More
$200,000 for a trip to space? Blue Origin says price hasn’t been seriously discussed Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space venture, Blue Origin, is playing down reports that a suborbital space trip on its New… Read More
Here’s why space engineers come to Seattle … and why some of them leave A new employment study indicates that roughly 3,000 people are directly employed by Washington state’s space industry, and roughly half… Read More
Blue Origin targets moon landing by 2023 as an early step toward lunar settlement Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is laying out a plan to support the creation… Read More
GeekWire 200 June update: Bezos’ Blue Origin is No. 1 as dust settles following another IPO For all of Jeff Bezos’ accomplishments, one accolade he hadn’t attained was leading a company sitting atop the GeekWire 200, our… Read More
Blue Origin gets in on NASA studies for resource utilization on moon and Mars Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is among 10 teams that will share about $10 million in NASA… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Jeff Bezos: ‘We will have to leave this planet … and it’s going to make this planet better’ Play LOS ANGELES – Deep thinkers have been saying for generations that we have to get off this rock and head for the… Read More
