Jeff Bezos next act? Making space tourism accessible
By The Washington Post
By Christian Davenport
They had just been to a matinee of October Sky, the film based on the starry-eyed memoir of Homer Hickam, the author and former NASA engineer. And now Jeff Bezos and his friend Neal Stephenson were sitting in a coffee shop, Hickam s dreams of one day building rockets to go to space still fresh in their minds.
Bezos said he had always wanted to start a space company, and Stephenson, the author, said, Well, why don t you start it today?
Soon, he did.
For years, Bezos has spent one day a week, usually Wednesdays, at Blue Origin, the space company he founded in 2000. Many in the space community hope that soon he will be spending more time at the company, injecting a sense of urgency into Blue Origin s activities at a time when NASA is pushing to return astronauts to the moon, space tourism is close to reality and the commercial space industry continues to grow.
They had just been to a matinee of "October Sky," the film based on the starry-eyed memoir of Homer Hickam, the author and former NASA engineer. And now Jeff Bezos and his friend Neal Stephenson were sitting in a coffee shop, Hickam's dreams of one day building rockets to go to space still fresh in their minds.
For years, Bezos has spent one day a week at Blue Origin, the space company he founded in 2000. Many in the space community hope that soon he will be spending more time at the company.
For years, Bezos has spent one day a week at Blue Origin, the space company he founded in 2000. Many in the space community hope that soon he will be spending more time at the company.
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Amazon to Star Trek: Jeff Bezos is Set to Focus on Blue Origin . Elon Musk, Are You Listening?
Jeff Bezos may be set to give Elon Musk some competition after stepping down as Amazon CEO | Image credit: Reuters (Representational)
Jeff Bezos company Blue Origin, much like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, aims at making space travel easier by creating reusable rockets that can fly into space.
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Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, recently announced that he will be stepping down as the CEO of the online retail company later this year. However, he will continue as the executive chairman of Amazon and is still its largest shareholder. Media reports claim that he is all set to focus on long term ventures like his spacecraft manufacturing company, Blue Origin.