July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... been discussed for decades by some of our finest thinkers. It is a key driver of entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos – they feel that such expansion is imperative to preserve our species. Physicist Stephen Hawking addressed this topic...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
... to make a gentle, controlled landing just four and a half feet from the centre of the pad,” said Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin. To watch a video of the launch click here www.blueorigin.com Once the vehicle...
23 October 2017
Space race ramps up between Blue Origin and SpaceX
... for three seconds, as part of a hot-fire test conducted by the company last week. The BE-4 was unveiled by Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin, earlier this year and at present his aerospace company is largely self-funded. The...
July 2020
The four horsemen of space finance
... the advent of benefactor capital. Entrepreneurs such as Jeff Bezos, the late Paul Allen and others have put their... in scope, e.g. focused on a specific part of the industry. Even Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world at the time of writing, is ...
July 2020
Are we entering a post-Overview Effect era?
...’s past We also have novel private ventures under way, like Asgardia, the first space nation. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos has announced his intention to realise Gerard K O’Neill’s vision of large space settlements located at Lagrange Point L5, and...
January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
... and implemented through a government agency. We also have to consider how we define ‘space’: do we define the flights that Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have made as sub-orbital flights and define this as entering space, or do we confine the...
