As Blue Origin nears the first launch of its New Glenn rocket, founder Jeff Bezos said he is not worried Elon Musk’s influence on the incoming Trump administration will adversely affect the company.

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Blue Origin’s future may rest on the company being less “gradatim” and more “ferociter.” The tortoises on the company’s coat of arms will need to learn how to run.

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Blue Origin delayed the return to flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle by one day as the company’s founerd says he will push the company to move more quickly on its various projects.

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Bob Smith, chief executive of Blue Origin, will resign from the company in December and be replaced by Dave Limp, the Amazon executive who had been overseeing development of its Project Kuiper constellation.

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U.S. Space Systems Command officials earlier this month gave an unclassified briefing to Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos on the power competition taking place in the space domain.

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More than space tourists, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are leading the way to commercial and public utilization of space previously only imagined in science fiction.

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There’s no such thing as a free launch — especially when it comes to suborbital joy rides.

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The era of commercial suborbital human spaceflight may finally be here, but whether it lasts isn’t certain, and neither is its importance.

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A more fundamental competition than Bezos vs. Branson is taking shape, pitting companies against the clock. Can those companies establish a human presence in low Earth orbit before the International Space Station is retired around 2030?

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Jeff Bezos and the others who were on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle hailed the experience as better than expected, but Bezos is facing a backlash for spending part of his extreme wealth on space.

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Blue Origin performed its first crewed New Shepard launch July 20, sending company founder Jeff Bezos and three other people on a suborbital flight.

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Blue Origin is on track to perform the first crewed launch of its New Shepard vehicle July 20, carrying company founder Jeff Bezos and three others on a suborbital spaceflight.

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An 18-year-old Dutch man will fly on Blue Origin’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital flight, taking the place of the unidentified winner of an auction last month for the seat.

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With less than a week before its first crewed suborbital spaceflight, Blue Origin is distributing some of the proceeds from an auction for one of the seats on that flight to a group of space-related non-profit organizations.

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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson and five other people flew to the edge of space on the company’s SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle July 11, the culmination of an effort that started nearly 17 years ago.

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Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson will be on the company’s next flight of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle July 11, going to space days before fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.

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Blue Origin announced July 1 that it will fly one of the “Mercury 13” women who underwent astronaut training in the early years of the space program on the company’s first crewed New Shepard suborbital flight.

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A seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle sold for $28 million at an auction June 12.

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Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man and founder of Blue Origin, announced June 7 that he will go on the first crewed flight of the company’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle next month.

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Some saw Jeff Bezos' announcement that he will will step down as chief executive of Amazon in July as a sign that Bezos would use that time and energy to provide new urgency for Blue Origin.

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Just as Jeff Bezos, and others like him, are pushing the envelope of technology and business models, there is a similar need to push the limits of space policy such that it will support a space settlement agenda.

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Blue Origin revealed new details about a lunar lander concept that the company’s founder says can support a human return to the moon by 2024.

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The internet shopping giant has asked international spectrum regulators to provide access to airwaves for a constellation of 3,236 satellites.

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Blue Origin’s founder explains how New Shepard and New Glenn enable humanity’s future in the solar system.

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