Mar 5, 2019
The cosmic vision of Jeff Bezos
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, space travel
Blue Origin’s founder explains how New Shepard and New Glenn enable humanity’s future in the solar system.
This article originally appeared in the Feb. 25, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine.
Jeff Bezos is not a man of little dreams. The world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of more than $130 billion, is spending some of his wealth on his space startup, Blue Origin. Much of the attention that the company has received has focused on the billions he’s invested into the company, its plans to fly tourists on its suborbital New Shepard vehicle and its entry into the orbital launch market with its New Glenn rocket.