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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, puts goggles over his eyes that belonged to aviator Amelia Mary Earhart during a post launch news briefing from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The goggles were carried aboard the New Shepard during Tuesday’s launch. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) TXTG129

July 20, 2021 at 12:22 pm

Jeff Bezos went to space and all we got was this cowboy hat

Forget privatized space travel, income inequality and Tuesday morning's blend of the two. After Jeff Bezos returned to Earth in his Blue Origin spacecraft, the...

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launches carrying passengers Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, brother Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk, from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) OTKTG101 OTKTG101

July 20, 2021 at 5:27 am

On his ‘Best day ever!’ Jeff Bezos traveled to space — and spurred a backlash WATCH

Jeff Bezos, creator of Amazon and the richest man in the world, blasted off Tuesday morning atop a New Shepard rocket built by his space...

Left to Right: Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos, Oliver Daemo and Wally Funk

July 19, 2021 at 4:49 pm

With Tuesday’s Bezos space launch, Blue Origin engineers look for more ‘extreme elation’ WATCH

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is designed to return to Earth with a pinpoint vertical landing about two miles from where it took off, a...

Blue Origin’s NS14 rocket lifts off from their launch site in Van Horn, Texas in January, 2021.

July 18, 2021 at 6:00 am

Ready to rocket, Jeff Bezos aims to open up space tourism

Billionaire Jeff Bezos and three others will rocket into space this week. Bezos and his Kent-based Blue Origin company see space tourism as just a...

In this image from video made available by Blue Origin, the New Shepard rocket lifts off during a test in West Texas on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Blue Origin via AP)

July 15, 2021 at 8:35 am

18-year-old joining Blue Origin’s 1st passenger spaceflight

An 18-year-old is about to become the youngest person in space, rocketing away with an aviation pioneer who will become the oldest at age 82...

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Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. and founder of Blue Origin LLC, speaks at the unveiling of the Blue Origin New Shepard system during the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Bezos has been reinvesting money he made at Amazon since he started his space exploration company more than a decade ago, and has plans to launch paying tourists into space within two years. Photographer: Matthew Staver/Bloomberg 700030939

July 13, 2021 at 5:13 pm

Bezos, GE, Lockheed are tapped by NASA for nuclear space flight

The U.S. government is drawing on the expertise of Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture, General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy and other companies to develop...

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July 13, 2021 at 7:38 am

Blue Origin gets FAA OK to send Jeff Bezos, 3 others to space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will climb atop his New Shepard rocket next Tuesday in West Texas, joined by his brother, an 82-year-old female aviation pioneer...

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This combination of 2019 and 2016 file photos shows Jeff Bezos with a model of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington, left, and Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket in Mojave, Calif. The two billionaires are putting everything on the line in July 2021 to ride their own rockets into space. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Mark J. Terrill) NY775 NY775

July 9, 2021 at 4:47 pm

Bezos’ Blue Origin mocks Branson rocket as high-altitude plane

Two billionaires are poised to fly to the edge of space this month, and the sniping is getting worse. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin dismissed Virgin...

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FILE – In this 1995 file photo, members of the FLATs, also known as the Mercury 13, gather for a photo as they attend a shuttle launch in Florida. From left are Gene Nora Jessen, Wally Funk, Jerrie Cobb, Jerri Truhill, Sarah Rutley, Myrtle Cagle and Bernice Steadman. Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos has chosen Funk, an early female aerospace pioneer, to rocket into space with him later this month. The company announced Thursday, July 1, 2021, that Funk will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas, flying as an â€œhonored guest.â€ Funk, along with the other women of Mercury 13, went through astronaut training in the 1960s, but never made it to space – or even NASA’s astronaut corps – because of their gender. (NASA via AP) NYCD403 NYCD403

July 1, 2021 at 6:46 am

82-year-old female aerospace pioneer to ride rocket with Jeff Bezos: ‘No one has waited longer’

Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos has chosen an early female aerospace pioneer — an 82-year-old pilot denied astronaut wings decades ago because of her gender —...

Law enforcement officials take a closer look at the wreckage where a Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket, SpaceShipTwo, exploded and crashed in Mojave, Calif., Nov 1, 2014. The explosion killed a pilot aboard and seriously injured another while scattering wreckage in Southern California’s Mojave Desert, witnesses and officials said. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday, July 28, 2015, that the developer of a commercial spacecraft that broke apart over the Mojave Desert last year failed to protect against the possibility of human error, specifically the co-pilot’s premature unlocking of a braking system that triggered the in-flight breakup of the vehicle. (Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP, file) LA106

June 24, 2021 at 5:00 pm

Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson will fly to space at their own risk. Does that make it right for everyone?

Now that several companies are signing up wealthy people for flights to space, some in Congress say it may be time for the Federal Aviation...

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