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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has 'thousands of people in the auction process' for a ticket to space and needs to build more rockets to meet the demand, CEO says
Bob Smith also said Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is building more rockets and can "easily double" its cr…
Sarah Jackson
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China beats SpaceX and Blue Origin to reach orbit with a methane-fueled rocket, edging ahead of the US in the space race
Landspace launched its Zhuque-2 rocket Tuesday. It's the first "methalox" rocket to reach orbit, be…
Marianne Guenot
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William Shatner pushes back at Prince William after space trip, saying he has 'the wrong idea' about spaceflight
Prince William took a dig at space tourism. Star Trek actor William Shatner fired back at the royal…
Heather Schlitz
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to launch its fifth tourist flight to space on June 4
The NS-21 will lift off from Launch Site One on Saturday, June 4 at 8:00 a.m. CDT (6:30 pm IST),…
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Lauren Sanchez says she was crying and holding Jeff Bezos' mother during Blue Origin's first manned spaceflight
Sanchez and Bezos' relationship first entered the public eye after the National Enquirer reported o…
Kai Xiang Teo
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Hamish Harding, the billionaire on board the Titanic submersible, is a serial explorer who also went to space on a Blue Origin flight
Hamish Harding, one of the passengers on board the missing submersible visiting the Titanic, flew 6…
Marianne Guenot
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Jeff Bezos said Blue Origin has sold nearly $100 million worth of tickets for future tourist trips to space
Jeff Bezos, having returned from the edge of space Tuesday, said the demand for tickets on Blue Ori…
Kate Duffy
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An engineer who's booked to fly on Bezos' Blue Origin will become the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space. She says she had to keep her career dreams secret because of discrimination in the space industry.
Future Blue Origin astronaut Katya Echazarreta said colleagues and students told they didn't want t…
Kate Duffy
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A SpaceX civilian astronaut who flew in orbit for 3 days joins rival company Blue Origin as an engineer
After launching with Elon Musk's SpaceX, Chris Sembroski said he was now working at Blue Origin, Je…
Kate Duffy
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90-year-old 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner on his space mission with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin: 'I'm thrilled and anxious and a little nervous and a little frightened'
"Star Trek" actor William Shatner told The Today Show he's "thrilled" and "a little frightened" abo…
Sarah Jackson
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90-year-old 'Star Trek' actor William Shatner will fly into space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin mission later this month
After decades of playing Captain Kirk, 90-year-old William Shatner will be traveling to outer space…
Grace Kay
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Read the email Blue Origin's CEO sent to staff addressing allegations of sexism, safety risks and a toxic work culture
An open letter that went public on Thursday accused the space company of neglecting safety concerns…
Grace Kay
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Blue Origin's next spaceflight will include a former NASA engineer and a healthcare entrepreneur
Blue Origin is flying a group of paying tourists to the edge of space on October 12 following Jeff …
Tim Levin
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Jeff Bezos has a vision to colonize space with a trillion people. We asked experts to put it to the test.
Jeff Bezos dreams of a future where a trillion humans live in the solar system. But experts are ske…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Elon Musk wants Jeff Bezos to 'get out of his hot tub and yacht' so Blue Origin can be more successful, biographer says
Elon Musk has been known to goad the Blue Origin founder, but Walter Isaacson said the SpaceX boss …
Jyoti Mann
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William Shatner hits back after George Takei called him a 'guinea pig' and 'unfit' following Blue Origin spaceflight
William Shatner took to Twitter on Friday to respond to George Takei's comments about him and the B…
Lauren Edmonds
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Blue Origin passengers who are 1st married couple to fly to space on commercial rocket say they've got plans to fly with SpaceX and Virgin Galactic too
Sharon and Mark Hagle, 73, are launching to the edge of space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket and…
Kate Duffy
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Jeff Bezos' knowledge of rockets blew United Launch Alliance's chief away during their initial meeting, report says
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Tory Bruno's ULA agreed in 2014 to build American rocket engines but it…
Kate Duffy
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Jeff Bezos' astronaut wings might only be 'honorary' after the FAA changed the definition of an astronaut
New FAA guidelines made the day of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin suborbital launch revises some key disti…
Francis Agustin,Morgan McFall…
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Jeff Bezos went to space to realize how fragile Earth is. A 10-minute flight may not be long enough to experience this 'overview effect.'
Some astronauts realize how fragile the Earth is when they see it from space - known as "the overvi…