Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin hired S-3 Group to lobby on issues related to space launch logistics in the annual defense appropriations bill. Blue Origin has received nearly $1.5 billion

The Amazon founder’s space company marked a major milestone Thursday with the first test flight of its New Glenn rocket.

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA’s Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.

The successful flight to orbit of the Amazon founder’s powerful rocket suggests it could grow into a credible competitor with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Blue Origin said that after breaching the Karman Line, nearly 100 kilometers above Earth, the payload will experience at least two minutes of lunar gravity forces to test six broad lunar technologies.

While Jeff Bezos has spent $14 billion to achieve his first space launch, his billionaire rival has built a thriving business, mostly with other people’s money.

Fact checked by Vikki Velasquez Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, is one of the richest people in history with a fortune that will outlast him and his heirs. Bezos has stated that he will donate most of his fortune during his lifetime or after his death.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is scheduled to launch the NS-29 mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle from West Texas on Tuesday, January 28, at 11 a.m. EST. This research flight will simulate the Moon's one-sixth gravity,

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin joined the billionaire’s space race in earnest when its New Glenn rocket roared from a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in the early morning hours of Jan. 16. The second stage with the Blue Ring payload successfully reached orbit. However, an attempt to land the first stage on a drone ship failed.

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches suborbital New Shepard rocket from Texas Blue Origin launches a suborbital New Shepard rocket from Texas without humans aboard, carrying 30 research payloads, including some for moon-related studies.

After the Jan. 16 maiden launch of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, billionaire Jeff Bezos and crew dined at the Country Cookin' Diner in Port St. John. Bezos, who owns Blue Origin, ate the pancake combo, with two eggs over medium and a sausage patty. "He tipped well. He was very generous," waitress Pam Pollock said.