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Videos: Strap in aboard Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship
Step inside a prototype of Blue Origin's crew capsule to get a glimpse of what space tourists will experience when the spaceship begins suborbital flights with passengers in 2018.
Photos: Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster on display
Scarred from five trips to the edge of space and back, Blue Origin's privately-developed New Shepard rocket was on vertical display this week at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Blue Origin’s staying power bankrolled by Jeff Bezos’s multibillion-dollar investment
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, now the second-richest person in the world, is funding his space company's lofty ambitions $1 billion per year, driving Blue Origin closer to taking paying passengers to the edge of space and fielding a reusable satellite launcher that will usher in a golden age of space exploration, the billionaire tycoon said Wednesday.
Q&A with Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin
Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the surging space company Blue Origin, spoke with reporters at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
VideoBlue Origin details new rocket’s capabilities, signs first orbital customer
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos revealed new details of his space company's reusable orbital-class booster Tuesday, releasing an animation illustrating the rocket's liftoff from Cape Canaveral and announcing a contract with Eutelsat to put a commercial communications satellite on one of the launcher's first missions.
VideoPrivately-developed rocket aces abort test
Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, launched a dramatic flight test over West Texas on Wednesday to verify the performance of an escape system on its reusable suborbital launcher designed to loft space tourists, researchers and commercial astronauts on short rides to the edge of space.
Bezos reveals design of powerful orbital-class launcher
Tech pioneer and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos said this week his growing launch company, Blue Origin, plans to debut a 30-story satellite booster built and launched from Florida by the end of the decade.
VideoBlue Origin flies reusable suborbital rocket for fourth time
Blue Origin's suborbital space transport system made another test flight Sunday, launching and landing at the company's West Texas test facility to prove out the crew capsule's resiliency to a parachute failure.
Details of Orbital ATK’s proposed heavy launcher revealed
The launch vehicle Orbital ATK wants to face off against SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for lucrative U.S. military contracts would be made of two internally-built solid rocket motors and an upper stage engine supplied by Blue Origin, the entrepreneurial space firm led by Jeff Bezos, an Orbital ATK official said this week.
VideoCompanies offer fresh perspectives on recent rocket landings
In case the the sight of a large rocket plummeting back to Earth, only to be slowed in the last seconds by a puff of thrust, hasn't lost its novelty yet, SpaceX and Blue Origin have released dramatic videos showing their recent powered rocket landings from new angles.