How much would you pay to leave our dumpster fire of a world for just a few minutes? Blue Origin is considering charging $200,000 to $300,000 according to a Reuters report. For that price, passengers would get a seat on Blue Origin’s New Shepard, the commercial space vehicle from Jeff Bezos’ rocket company. The rocket […]
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Jeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASA
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It looks like the billionaires’ race to colonize space will kick-off in two different directions. While SpaceX CEO Elon Musk dreams of sending people to Mars as soon as 2024, Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos believes it’s more practical to start out on the moon.
Chatting with GeekWire‘s Alan Boyle at the Space Development Conference in Los Angeles on Friday, Bezos outlined his plan to send people to the moon and eventually build a permanent settlement there.
Bezos has a pragmatic view of why we’ll need those lunar bases in the future. “The Earth is not a very good place to do heavy industry. It’s convenient for us right now, but in the not-too-distant future — I’m talking decades, maybe 100 years — it’ll start to be easier to do a lot of the things that we currently do on Earth in space, because we’ll have so much energy,” he said. Read more…
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View More Jeff Bezos wants to build a moon colony, with or without NASAJeff Bezos details his moon colony ambitions
Jeff Bezos has big plans for the moon, if he can just get there. With a little elbow grease our trusty satellite could become a platform from which to build out the space industry — and while a partnership with NASA, the ESA and others would be best, Blue Origin will do it solo if it has to.
View More Jeff Bezos details his moon colony ambitionsBlue Origin’s New Shepard skims space in successful 8th test launch
Blue Origin conducted the 8th launch of its New Shepard sub-orbital rocket and crew capsule today out in Texas, and things couldn’t have gone better for the growing space tourism company. The rocket ascended into a cloudless sky, reaching a max velocity of about 2,200 MPH, and delivered its capsule to the edge of space, where its occupant, “Mannquin Skywalker,” will have had a lovely view of the Earth.
View More Blue Origin’s New Shepard skims space in successful 8th test launchJeff Bezos’ Blue Origin starts its year off right with beautiful rocket launch
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Up, up, and away.
Blue Origin — the previously secretive rocket company started by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos — just launched another successful flight and landing of its New Shepard rocket and capsule from its facility in Texas.
The test flight, which took place on Sunday at around 1:07 p.m. ET, will pave the way for people to actually fly to suborbital space aboard the Blue Origin rocket sometime in the coming years.
The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 350,000 feet during the test flight, which took roughly 10 minutes from liftoff to the rocket and capsule touchdowns. Read more…
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SpaceX is making big money moves
Planning a mars mission, a global telecommunications network for inexpensive internet service, and creating an interplanetary hedge against world war three isn’t cheap, so it’s no wonder that SpaceX is closing on $500 million in new cash through a financing round led by Fidelity, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the round. Responding to clamoring […]
View More SpaceX is making big money movesmu Space targets 2020 launch of first satellite aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket, the reusable launch vehicle created by Blue Origin to put people and large cargo into orbit, has a new confirmed payload for one of its first missions: mu Space. The Thai satellite startup announced it would be working with Blue Origin late last year, but now it has confirmed that the agreement is in place, with a launch window that opens in late 2020.… Read More
2018 needs to be the year of private spaceflight companies fulfilling their past promises
It’s time for private spaceflight to start making good on its promises. And in 2018, hopefully it will do just that.
From SpaceX’s long-promised first flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket to NASA’s plan to contract private companies to deliver astronaut…
Musk versus Bezos: Whose rocket is the biggest?
When it comes to rockets, size matters, and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos know it. The two billionaire entrepreneurs both own their own spaceflight companies.
Musk’s SpaceX is currently using its large Falcon 9 rocket to fly large payloads to orbit …
Watch Blue Origin’s ‘Mannequin Skywalker’ ride into space
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Behold one of history’s greatest partnerships: Man and mannequin, working together so that both may be joined in eternal embrace beyond the stars.
Earlier this week, we excitedly shared video of a successful rocket launch by Jeff Bezo’s spaceflight company Blue Origin. In that video, the company offers a peek at Blue Origin’s launch site as it sent its suborbital New Shepard rocket and capsule, which included a test dummy nicknamed “Mannequin Skywalker,” to the edge of space.
The rocket reached 322,032 feet above Earth’s surface before successfully returning to terra firma but now — BUT NOW! — we have video from inside the capsule showing Mannequin Skywalker’s trip in full. Read more…
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Crunch Report | Glow-in-the-Dark Plants
Blue Origin’s Crew Capsule 2.0 takes first flight, scientists at MIT make glow-in-the-dark plants and Google is opening an AI center in China. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Blue Origin flies its Crew Capsule 2.0 for the first time
Jef Bezos’ space company Blue Origin recorded a new milestone today – an inaugural flight for Crew Capsule 2.0, the latest version of the vehicle it’s creating to bring astronauts into space for its first passenger flights. The Crew Capsule 2.0 craft flew atop a New Shepard reusable booster, traveling up to an altitude of over 322,000 feet. The New Shepard rocket, which… Read More