The space race was once decided by the wealth of nations, but now its future is determined by ultra wealthy individuals.
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This is what spaceflight looks like now: A rich person with a dream (and an enormous amount of cash to burn) doesn't wait for NASA to call, but instead self-launches beyond Earth's atmosphere.
Richard Branson's and Jeff Bezos's recent respective trips to space might very well be the opening acts to a new era defined by rich-guy space ambitions.
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But don't count me among those criticizing their space-bound ventures as a pointless billionaire spectacle. Those who see this as an exercise of billionaire ego are missing the greater opportunities that await.
Perhaps most important, Apollo and other space missions taught us that we can do things that were previously deemed impossible, and those achievements altered our aspirations for the better. The trajectory of civilization was forever changed.
Ex-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Bezos launch, future of space travel
The future of space innovation will be controlled by corporations, ex-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNBC Tuesday, shortly after Jeff Bezos became the second space company founder to go to space.
"These commercial entrepreneurs are making huge moves that are going to transform humanity and move more of us into space," Bridenstine said on "Squawk on the Street." "The future is going to be human space stations, commercially owned and operated."
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Jeff Bezos is achieving his dream of flying into space while officially launching his company's commercial operations.
Two new missions called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS aim to shed light on key aspects of Earth's so-called 'sister planet'.
When NASA chose only Elon Musk's firm to help put astronauts on the moon again, two other firms cried foul.
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Looking for insurance for your next space flight? Help could be on the way. AXA S.A . (ticker: AXAHY), the French insurance heavyweight, is hoping to launch a new line of coverage: insurance for space travelers.
"The product that we're working on developing would be to insure against bodily injury to the space flight participants, themselves," Chris Kunstadter, global head of space underwriting at AXA XL, AXA S.A.'s commercial insurance division, told Barron's .
Blue Origin launch could help usher in commercial space travel | FOX31 Denver
WATKINS, Colo. (KDVR) – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos flew to space and back Tuesday in the New Shepard, a rocket made by his company Blue Origin.
Colorado Air and Space Port (formerly Front Range Airport) director David Ruppel said this is a big step for commercial space flight.
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The last time we watched rich boys and their toys going mano a mano was back in the aughts, when Microsoft's Paul Allen and Oracle's Larry Ellison tussled over who had the biggest private yacht in the world.
Now the billionaire battle is for space, albeit short, suborbital flights. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, announced he would fly in his Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on July 20.
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When it comes to public safety, traffic jams and environmental hazards, there is no framework for regulating private space travel.
Blue Origin's New Shepard NS-14 booster rocket lands at Launch Site One in West Texas. | Blue Origin via AP
When Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos blasts off on Tuesday with three other space tourists, a nascent industry will take a major step toward realizing its out-of-this-world dreams.
Happening on Twitter
Man is never satisfied… no amount of money nor toys nor awards can speak to the fact that this life is just an appe… https://t.co/2Qmktxb9GM kirkfranklin (from Dallas, TX) Wed Jul 21 20:03:50 +0000 2021
Space travel was once about the pursuit of science now it's about who has the biggest dick. It's so embarrassing. #JeffBezos CaroleRadziwill (from New York) Tue Jul 20 23:10:04 +0000 2021
The single most important discovery of space travel, for those who don't already know is that we are one world. It's time to clean it up. robreiner (from California, USA) Tue Jul 20 15:22:30 +0000 2021
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