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Blue Origin

May 2024

  • Man wearing blue jumpsuit with hands up in air in front of white structure

    First Black astronaut candidate, now 90, reaches space in Blue Origin flight

    Ex-air force captain Ed Dwight, passed over by Nasa in 1961, now oldest person to reach edge of space with Jeff Bezo’s space firm

October 2023

  • A rocket lifts off.

    Billionaire space race: can Bezos’s Project Kuiper catch up to Musk’s Starlink?

    As the world’s wealthiest men chest-thump in low-Earth orbit, others wonder how their mess will eventually be cleaned up

October 2022

  • Star Trek actor William Shatner speaks after flying into space on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket in October last year

    ‘It felt like a funeral’: William Shatner reflects on voyage to space

    Recalling the experience almost one year later, the actor admits ‘everything I had expected to see was wrong’

September 2022

  • This image provided by Blue Origin shows a capsule containing science experiments after a launch failure, parachuting onto the desert floor on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Jeff Bezos' rocket company has suffered its first launch failure. No one was aboard, only science experiments. The Blue Origin rocket veered off course over West Texas about 1 1/2 minutes after liftoff Monday. (Blue Origin via AP)

    ‘We’ve experienced an anomaly’: Bezos’s latest Blue Origin launch fails

    New Shepard rocket fails shortly after launch, but uncrewed capsule jettisons successfully

April 2022

  • Martin Rees

    Could space-going billionaires be the vanguard of a cosmic revolution?

    Martin Rees
  • ‘Bezos has enough money to own a $500m mega-yacht, a $23m mansion in Washington DC, a $175m estate in Beverly Hills and a $78m, 14-acre estate in Maui.’

    Jeff Bezos is worth $160bn – yet Congress might bail out his space company

    Bernie Sanders

January 2022

  • An illustration of Nasa’s new space launch system, which will take humans back to the moon.

    To the moon and beyond: what 2022 holds for space travel

  • Martin Rees

    Nasa’s Webb telescope is a joy. But it’s the private ventures that push at limits

    Martin Rees

December 2021

  • A rocket lifts off from a launchpad in Van Horn, Texas, producing a fiery trail and raising a cloud of dust.

    Daughter of US astronaut rockets into space aboard Blue Origin spacecraft

    Laura Shepard Churchley, whose father, Alan Shepard, made history in 1961 as the first American to travel into space, was among the crew of six

November 2021

  • Michael Strahan won Super Bowl XLII with the New York Giants

    NFL hall of famer Michael Strahan going to space with Bezos’s Blue Origin

    Former New York Giants star Michael Strahan is going to space next month on board the New Shepard, a part of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin project
  • An artist’s impression of the SpaceX starship that will carry astronauts to the surface of the moon.

    Moonwatch 2024
    Moonwatch: Nasa resumes work on lunar lander

    Agency says human landing will not be possible until 2025 at the earliest after lawsuit delays project
  • Glen de Vries, who traveled to space with William Shatner aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, was killed in a plane crash Thursday.

    Tech mogul who joined William Shatner in space on Blue Origin dies in air crash

    Glen de Vries and Thomas Fischer were aboard a single-engine Cessna that went down Thursday in northern New Jersey

October 2021

  • William Shatner (centre) describes what the G-force of the Blue Origin liftoff did to his face

    ‘What a fool’: fellow actors criticise William Shatner’s space flight

    Dame Joan Collins and Brian Cox unimpressed by historic trip, saying ‘let’s take care of this planet first’
  • William Shatner Space Launch With Blue Origin, Van Horn, Texas, USA - 13 Oct 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Blue Origin/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock (12536355h) Astronauts WILLIAM SHATNER, GLEN DE VRIES, AUDREY POWERS, CHRIS BOSHUIZEN, walk past the returned booster after their historic Blue Origin flight into Space. Lasting just more than 10 minutes, the autonomous vehicle, named for Alan Shepard, the first American to reach space, climbed to a height of about 66 miles, four miles beyond one measurement of what is generally considered the edge of space. Aloft and free-floating above the Earth, the crew took in views of the planet below and the dark skies beyond while they experienced weightlessness for a few minutes. William Shatner Space Launch With Blue Origin, Van Horn, Texas, USA - 13 Oct 2021

    How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?

    The company employs the world’s top engineers and has access to unlimited money but is plagued by safety concerns and toxic workplace culture

    • ‘This comforter of blue’: how Shatner’s blast into space became an ode to Earth

    • 'Most profound experience': William Shatner starstruck by encounter with space – video

    • William Shatner ready for 'life-changing' space flight at 90 – video

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