Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, also heads up the Blue
Origin private space company, which successfully launched a rocket on Sunday.
Not exact matches
With the emergence of ambitious
private space companies like SpaceX, Blue
Origin and others, though, who's allowed to do what in the solar system is less clear.
Private spaceflight
company Blue
Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital
space vehicle starting next year.
The
company work with both
private and government organizations globally and in 2015 signed an agreement with Blue
Origin to offer integration services on their New Shepard
space vehicle.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of
private spaceflight
company Blue
Origin and founder and CEO of Amazon.com, announced today that Blue
Origin will make Florida's
Space Coast its home port for reusable rocket launches.
Blue
Origin is one of several
private companies — like SpaceX, Boeing, Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace — in the race to offer commercial trips to
space for passengers.