Amazon's Jeff Bezos Flying Machine
Billionaires Race to Space Source: Blue Origin - Jeff Bezos & his space vehicle Blue Origin Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is in a race to win the highly competitive drive to commercialize space. His company Blue Origin has a mission: to provide low cost travel to space. He's in a battle for space with two other billionaires - Elon Musk of SpaceX and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic. Take-Off 2019 Bezos finances Blue Origin with $1 billion in Amazon stock yearly. His system consists of a pressurized crew capsule on top of a reusable "New Shepherd" rocket. The system has been successfully tested several times. Experts expect the first crewed flight in the first half of 2019. Blue Origin has yet to leave the Earth's atmosphere. SpaceX Falcon Heavy has soared into space. Virgin Galactic's Unity spaceship recently crossed into the outer edges of space. New, Blue Origin Rocket Bezos is developing the new B...