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    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      Space industry27 min
      Moon rush: the launch of a lunar economy | FT Film

      Which companies will win the rush to the Moon?

      FT Film: Moon Rush
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin picks Amazon device chief as CEO

      Dave Limp will replace Bob Smith as rocket company seeks an edge in the private sector space race

      A booster for a Blue Origin rocket
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Blue Origin looks to expand beyond US with international launch site

      Bezos-backed rocket group eyes new partnerships and acquisitions as it competes with SpaceX

      Bob Smith, wearing a microphone, speaks and gestures with his hands
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Inside BusinessPeggy Hollinger
      The coming of age of the global space economy

      Consolidation of the sector looms amid greater competitive pressure

      An Inmarsat GX1-4 satellite in space
    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      Space industry
      Europe’s cosmic dreams have a billionaire problem

      Old world, meet final frontier

    • Monday, 12 September, 2022
      Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket bursts into flames during uncrewed mission

      New Shepard grounded until the US aviation regulator finishes an investigation of the incident

      The moment when the capsule fired emergency thrusters to separate from its booster during an emergency manuever on Monday
    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      Amazon.com
      Amazon inks deals to send its internet satellites into space

      Arianespace, the ULA and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin to provide backbone for high-speed networks

      The United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket
    • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
      The Big Read
      Elon Musk: Interview with FT’s Person of the Year

      The controversial Tesla chief executive has triggered a historic shift in the auto industry towards electric vehicles

    • Monday, 1 November, 2021
      Sinead O'Sullivan
      Privatising astronauts means more will boldly go where few went before

      Increased access to the coveted title signals the space sector’s tilt towards a largely commercial endeavour

      Companies like Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have opened up space travel to private astronauts
    • Monday, 25 October, 2021
      Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin plans ‘business park’ in space

      Launch of commercial station to be called Orbital Reef eyed for latter half of this decade

    • Thursday, 30 September, 2021
      US regulator reviews safety concerns at Bezos space group Blue Origin

      Current and former employees complained about culture and safety issues at Amazon founder’s company

      Jeff Bezos with crew
    • Friday, 30 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Bezos’s Blue Origin rebuffed by US watchdog in dispute over Nasa contract

      Finding says decision to award lunar landing contract to SpaceX ‘did not violate procurement law’

    • Monday, 26 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Jeff Bezos offers Nasa $2bn discount for lunar contract

      Amazon founder’s Blue Origin had lost out to Elon Musk’s SpaceX to send astronauts to moon

      Blue Origin’s crew including Jeff Bezo after its successful first manned flight to the edge of space last week.
    • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Fiercest billionaire space race is Bezos vs Musk

      Richard Branson is not Blue Origin’s main rival because SpaceX remains streets ahead

    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Jeff Bezos successfully completes space flight

      Billionaire thanks ‘every Amazon employee and customer, because you guys paid for all this’

      Jeff Bezos leaves the capsule of the New Shepard craft after its return to the West Texas desert
    • Friday, 9 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Branson and Bezos in space: how their rocket ships compare

      Virgin Galactic’s billionaire founder plans to kickstart space tourism industry with mission on Sunday

    • Monday, 5 July, 2021
      LexVirgin Galactic
      Virgin Galactic: Blue Origin race raises publicity and shares Premium content

      It makes sense for the group to raise additional capital for itself when the share price is riding high

      Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, pictured in 2017
    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Space industry
      Richard Branson poised to beat Jeff Bezos into space

      Virgin Galactic brings forward founder’s first trip to nine days before rival’s Blue Origin mission

    • Saturday, 12 June, 2021
      Space industry
      Ticket for space flight with Jeff Bezos auctions for $28m

      Unnamed passenger will pay more than $9m for each minute of zero gravity in the Blue Origin capsule

      In this video image, the New Shepard capsule uses parachutes to land during a test in West Texas on April 14
    • Monday, 7 June, 2021
      Jeff Bezos
      Jeff Bezos to go to space after stepping down at Amazon

      Amazon chief executive says he and his brother will take Blue Origin’s first human space flight

    • Wednesday, 5 May, 2021
      Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin says it will take a civilian to space in July

      Auction of first private ticket could boost company’s flagging efforts in the billionaire space race

      Montage of Jeff Bezos and a Blue Origin rocket
    • Friday, 31 July, 2020
      Person in the News
      Jeff Bezos, Amazon billionaire in the hot seat

      Washington’s favourite ritual catches world’s richest man slightly unprepared

      Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Jeff Bezos
    • Monday, 30 March, 2020
      Jeff Bezos’s rocket company gets virus lockdown exemption

      Blue Origin to continue operations after being deemed ‘essential’ business by US government

    • Thursday, 9 May, 2019
      Space exploration
      Jeff Bezos launches plan for moon vehicle

      Amazon founder plots multigenerational bid to build colonies for humans in space

      Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon Jeff Bezos unveils his space company Blue Origin's space exploration lunar lander rocket called Blue Moon during an unveiling event in Washington, U.S., May 9, 2019. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
    • Friday, 3 May, 2019
      LexSpace exploration
      Space tourism: far, far away fares Premium content

      The dangers are real, as are the discomforts

      Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. and founder of Blue Origin LLC, smiles during the 32nd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Commercial space exploration can advance at the fast pace of Internet commerce only if the cost is reduced through advances in reusable rockets, Bezos said. Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg
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