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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin on Tuesday announced the crew of its Dec. 9 launch, which will carry “Good Morning America” co-anchor and former New York Giant Michael Strahan.
The gift was the largest yet for the Obama Foundation and was one in a series of splashy donations by Mr. Bezos, one of the world’s richest men, in recent months.
Barack Obama has a big new backer: Jeff Bezos.
The billionaire Blue Origin founder has predicted that people who are born in space will one day take vacations to Earth “the way you visit Yellowstone National Park.”
A judge has dismissed Jeff Bezos’s private spaceflight company Blue Origin’s lawsuit against NASA over the awarding of a moon-landing contract to SpaceX.
The U.S. Federal Court of Claims ruled against Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin in the company’s lawsuit against NASA over a lucrative astronaut lunar lander contract.
Jeff Bezos and gal pal Lauren Sanchez weren’t just lunching in New York City with Sanchez’s ex and his wife last week — the two couples spent the whole weekend together, sources told On The Money.
A bipartisan group told the company that they were considering referring their concerns to the Justice Department for a potential criminal inquiry.
The news comes after a Reuters investigation published last Wednesday showed that Amazon tracked search and sales data from third-party sellers to help develop its own private label products in India.
After the Blue Origin crew set down, science fiction met reality.
“I’ve heard about space for a long time now. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. What a miracle,” the actor said.
The CEO of Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin responded to reports that it fostered a “toxic” and sexist work environment, assuring employees that the rocket-maker has “no tolerance for discrimination or harassment.” However, Blue Origin chief Bob Smith did not admit any wrongdoing or apologize in an email to employees on Thursday. “It is…
Blue Origin launched the Amazon founder to the edge of space in July and has another flight planned in October, but the company has experienced other setbacks this year.
The Tesla CEO slammed the Amazon founder on Tuesday over multiple legal fights between the two billionaires’ space ventures.
The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos over spaceflight is well known, but the two made nice on Twitter over the Inspiration4 launch.
A new start-up that aims to reverse aging is planning to open a lab in the UK, reportedly with funding from Jeff Bezos.
Elon Musk fired his latest shot across the bow at Jeff Bezos on
Elon Musk mocked Jeff Bezos on Twitter Friday, accusing him of having stepped down as Amazon CEO in order to spend his time filing lawsuits against Musk’s company SpaceX.
A lawsuit from Jeff Bezos may end up scuppering NASA’s mission to return to the moon by 2024, although it isn’t the only obstacle putting that date in peril.
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin is suing the US government after NASA awarded a lunar lander contract to rival SpaceX.
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin filed a complaint in federal court against NASA over the SpaceX lunar lander contract.
The Government Accountability Office said a $2.9 billion award to SpaceX to build the next lunar lander for astronauts would stand.
In an open letter to NASA, Jeff Bezos has offered to waive billions of dollars in payments from the space agency in order to ensure his company Blue Origin gets to take part in its upcoming moon missions.
The Dutch teenager who became the world’s youngest space traveler this week surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he’d never ordered anything on Amazon. Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student, accompanied Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and 82-year-old female aviator Wally Funk – the oldest person to go to space -…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced plans to donate $100 million each to chef José Andrés and TV analyst Van Jones.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has thanked Amazon employees and customers for paying for his maiden voyage to space – but his remarks have prompted criticism from politicians and celebrities.
Wally Funk, a famous aviator who pushed for female inclusion in NASA’s astronaut training programs for decades, to join Blue Origin space flight.
The world’s richest man thanked Amazon employees and customers for making his flight to space possible.
Here’s what you need to know about the first Blue Origin New Shepard rocket flight with passengers on board.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos made history Tuesday with the first all-civilian suborbital flight into space.
Jeff Bezos, the world’s wealthiest man and founder of Amazon, has landed safely back on Earth with his crew following a successful launch by his private spaceflight company Blue Origin.
Blue Origin is set to make history as it launches a crew including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to space. The suborbital flight will be the first with an all-civilian crew.
The Amazon founder’s spaceflight company will carry people to space for the first time on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has said he is “ready”, not nervous, for his flight to the edge of space.
Ms. Funk’s trip to space with Jeff Bezos is reason to celebrate. But the launch this week, decades after she was denied the opportunity, also raises questions about whom space is for.
Jeff Bezos will attempt to fly to space on July 20. If successful, Bezos and Blue Origin will make history with the first unpiloted suborbital flight with a civilian crew.
While Dutch teenager Oliver Daemen becomes the youngest astronaut, Wally Funk, 82, will become the oldest as they travel into space with Bezos via the billionaire’s company.
Oliver Daemen will fly to the edge of space after another passenger who paid $28 million for the seat had a scheduling conflict.
