Enlarge / Jeff Bezos (right), the founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com, and Tory Bruno, CEO of United Launch Alliance, display a small-scale version of the BE-4 rocket engine during a press conference in 2014. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images) As Blue Origin nears the critical point of delivering flight-ready BE-4 rocket engines to United Launch […]
Well, it looks like Pete Davidson is going to be stuck on Earth for the time being. The Saturday Night Live star was recently named as the next big celeb to take a trip to space on the Blue Origin rocket, but that has plan has been scuttled. Why? Is it the increasing controversy surrounding his relationship with Kim […]
Hopefully Pete Davidson is already hard at work preparing himself for space travel, because if Jeff Bezos has anything to say about it, the comedian is going to be launched into orbit SOON! The Amazon founder and the Saturday Night Live star have apparently been talking for a while now about the possibility of Pete climbing into Bezos’ Blue Origin […]
Enlarge / The Falcon Heavy rocket is the most recent heavy-lift booster to debut, and that was more than three years ago. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann / Ars Technica ) A little more than three years ago, Ars published an article assessing the potential for four large rockets to make their debut in 2020. Spoiler alert: […]
Enlarge / Jeff Bezos had hoped to build a lunar lander for NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA). (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) For Blue Origin, the honeymoon is over. This summer, the company filed a lawsuit against NASA (NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION) , claiming that the agency ignored its own requirements when it awarded […]
Prince William doesn’t see the point in rushing into space when we have bigger issues to deal with on our home planet! The future king sat down for an interview on BBC’s Newscast podcast this week and slammed the space tourism frenzy, explaining that the billionaires who are spending planet-sized sums in the next space […]
Enlarge / The crew of NS-18. Pictured left to right: Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, William Shatner, and Chris Boshuizen. (credit: Blue Origin) Admittedly, there are a lot of reasons to be cynical about today’s human spaceflight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch system. The company founded by Jeff Bezos has not covered itself in […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) About three years ago, Blue Origin officials knew they were behind, failing to deliver on their founder’s grandiose vision. With Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos had long talked about building a world-class space transportation company and had even gone so far as to trademark “Build a Road to Space. […]
Enlarge / Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith (black hat) walks with Jeff Bezos after his flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard into space in July 2021. (credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) A former communications executive at Blue Origin and 20 other current and former employees have written a blistering essay about the company’s culture, citing safety […]
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