29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX. US taxpayers are expected to...slightly larger than those used on NASA's Space Shuttle) and originally part of Constellation's Ares 1 rocket to launch Orion, ...
June 2015
Re-usable rockets: a new breakthrough for suborbital research
...thanks to dedicated efforts by next generation reusable suborbital rocket firms like Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace, and Blue Origin, the field is on the verge of a revolution in how we access space. It will dramatically lower prices and create more...
February 2017
Opening up the infinite frontier
... the dream happen. Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Among his many internet pursuits he is also the founder of Blue Origin, a private spaceflight company that hopes to take tourists into space. People like Jeff Bezos, whose life...
October 2018
Funding the space frontier – a moment that changed the Universe
... of the most important things to have happened to the human race and life itself. Ever. Stay tuned. Blue Origin’s New Shepard on the launch pad on the morning of Mission 8 (29 April 2018). The crew capsule atop the...
July 2019
Lessons from our first race to the Moon
... back on today’s agenda in the US, China and Russia. Players in the United States now include SpaceX and Blue Origin from the private sector as well as NASA. Some commentators see the changes in plans in Russia and in NASA...
July 2019
Robotic astronomy on the Moon
... MoonBase Alliance and ILOA in Hawaii. Contributing another vital dimension, independent commercial enterprises such as Blue Origin, Bigelow Aerospace, SpaceX, Japan Manned Space Systems Corporation, Astrobotic, Moon Express, and Canadensys...
