May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
...different mentalities; and we have different financial potentials for investment in space exploration. Elon Musk (left) and Jeff Bezos. However, we do have some things in common: just like you, I am confident that humankind has no other route to long...
10 May 2019
Bezos unveils Moon mission with Blue Moon lander
...curiously written underneath, social media was rife with rumours that Jeff Bezos was about to unveil plans of a mission to the Moon... species. “The Earth is no longer big,” Bezos told the audience of schoolchildren, space industry representatives,...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
... so favourably impressed. Writing in the UK’s Daily Mail tabloid newspaper, one commentator described Richard Branson’s and Jeff Bezos’ initial suborbital flights as “an utterly pointless exercise in inflating egos that already dwarf the size of the...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
...of Apollo 11’s lunar landing on 20 July, Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight of the New Shepard from ‘... of the emergence of the industry and well before either Bezos or Branson conducted their first flights. That said, when ...
22 October 2019
Bezos announces Blue Moon partnership for lunar landing
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in... return Americans to the lunar surface by 2024. Speaking to several thousand delegates Bezos, who received a standing ovation at the end of his talk, said: ...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
The recent suborbital space tourism launches carrying Sir Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos as passengers on their respective space vehicles, together with the continued success of Elon Musk, have prompted a global ...
