In a recent interview at Italian Tech Week, Jeff Bezos shared insights that challenge the popular myth that college dropouts are the ultimate entrepreneurs. He called tech icons like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates “the exception,” emphasising that most successful founders benefit from real-world experience before starting their own companies. Bezos advised young people to…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made a rare public appearance at Italian Tech Week in Turin on Friday, where he boldly predicted that millions of people will live in space within the next few decades, according to the Financial Times. Speaking alongside John Elkann of Italy’s Agnelli family, the Blue Origin founder emphasized that people will…
The US Space Force has awarded SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, five of seven critical military launch missions for the upcoming fiscal year, totaling $714 million. The contracts are said to reinforce SpaceX’s dominance in Pentagon space contracts, despite recent public tensions between Musk and President Donald Trump. United Launch Alliance (ULA) secured the remaining…
It’s no secret that Gen Z often gets flak for being “lazy.” From TikTok trends like quiet quitting, bare minimum Mondays, and “lazy girl jobs,” to the Gen Z CEO who defended working from her bed, the generation has developed a reputation for applying minimal effort. And the Egyptian astronaut Sara Sabry has noticed some of…
The Amazon founder predicts that the insatiable energy demands of artificial intelligence will drive the construction of gigawatt-scale computing facilities in space, powered by constant sunlight. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the space exploration company Blue Origin, has predicted that the next frontier for the technology industry lies beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Speaking this…
NASA’s VIPER lunar rover could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company. The US space agency has awarded the company a task order to design a delivery plan for the rover, with a future delivery option. The award, worth $190 million, was issued through NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)…
Blue Origin has successfully completed its 35th flight of the New Shepard suborbital rocket, marking another milestone for the company’s payload program. Among the highlights of the flight was a new free-flying camera system designed to capture never-before-seen views of the spacecraft in flight. Launched from its Launch Site One in West Texas, the mission…
Today’s quest for dominance in outer space looks quite different from the first space race between the U.S. and Russia in the 1950s. The new book “Rocket Dreams” looks into the new era, including the trillion-dollar competition between Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. Author Christian Davenport joins “The Takeout” to discuss. Source…
Blue Origin, led by Jeff Bezos, is gearing up for a landmark mission to Mars, set to launch NASA’s ESCAPADE probes aboard the New Glenn rocket on September 29, 2025. This will mark Blue Origin’s first interplanetary flight and is notable because it precedes any Mars-bound mission from Elon Musk’s SpaceX, whose Starship is still…
Blue Origin, the pioneering space exploration company founded by Jeff Bezos, has taken a bold step into the future by accepting cryptocurrency payments for its space tourism flights. This initiative allows customers worldwide to book seats on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rockets using a variety of digital currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDT, and…