WSJ: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Targets Bigger Space Goals

WSJ: Jeff Bezos’ plans for space go far beyond the short trip he is slated to take there Tuesday. The Amazon.com Inc. founder has poured billions into his Blue Origin LLC space venture over more than two decades, believing humanity must ultimately establish outposts across the solar system. More immediately, Mr. Bezos’ company is seeking business […]

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‘Welcome to the dawn of a new Space Age’ says Richard Branson after Space Flight

On Sunday, Multi Billionaire Richard Branson was the first person to go up in a space plane and reach the edge of space, and safely return back to earth.  The below is an official press release about the historic event. SPACEPORT AMERICA, N.M.  — Virgin Galactic‘s newly minted astronauts are beyond thrilled following their journey […]

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Ingenuity, NASA’s small helicopter, succeeds in its first flight to Mars

For the first time in history, a spacecraft designed by human beings flew to another planet: Ingenuity took off, climbed to a height of three meters, hovered about thirty seconds before landing. Almost one hundred and eighteen years after the first modest flights (a few tens of meters) of a motorized vehicle – the plane […]

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