A seat on a spaceship ride with billionaire Jeff Bezos went for R385-million during a live auction on Saturday, concluding the month-long bidding process.
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Jeff Bezos will go to space next month when his company, Blue Origin, launches its first passenger-carrying mission.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are busy advancing their own, better-funded rocket endeavours. This is the competitive pressure facing Virgin Galactic. No wonder it’s wilting.
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company, Blue Origin, has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder.
Elon Musk’s reign as the the world’s richest person was brief. Tesla shares slid 2.4% on Tuesday, erasing $4.6-billion from its CEO’s fortune and knocking him from the top spot in a billionaires’ ranking.
Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Elon Musk, the outspoken South African-born entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet.
Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, will take the first woman to the moon’s surface, he said, as Nasa nears a decision to pick its first privately built lunar landers capable of sending astronauts to the moon by 2024.
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos sold shares worth $3.1-billion in the e-commerce company in recent days, regulatory filings showed on Wednesday.
SpaceX is weeks away from flying a second batch of satellites into orbit for a broadband Internet project Elon Musk is racing to set up before fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.