![]() ![]() But the fact that it was a crewed launch (with a crew that included Bezos himself), and its temporal proximity to Virgin Galactic's crewed suborbital launch with its founder Richard Branson just over a week beforehand, shone a brighter light on the company. ![]() The July flight certainly didn't mark the first time that Blue Origin got major media attention. It was its first trip to space with passengers, a milestone that signified a step toward a future with regular launches of crews of paying customers, including space tourists.īut this milestone, which put Blue Origin into the spotlight, also seems to have been a turning point for how the public views Bezos' company. Since Bezos founded the company in 2000, Blue Origin and its hardworking engineers and employees have been making progress with the company's many space technologies, including its New Shepard vehicle that lofted a crew of four passengers to space and back this July, and its upcoming New Glenn orbital vehicle.īlue Origin's latest launch, which carried Bezos along with his brother Mark, 18-year-old Dutch student Oliver Daemen and pioneering aviator Wally Funk to and from suborbital space aboard New Shepard, was a turning point for the company. However, amidst a booming space sector, one company has drawn a majority of the ire - Blue Origin. Over the past few months, commercial spaceflight has launched into overdrive as companies like Axiom planned crewed missions to the International Space Station, SpaceX won NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) contract to build a moon lander and Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic successfully completed crewed suborbital flights with the companies' respective billionaire founders on board. So why does Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin seem to be in the hot seat?ĭespite a summer of success, recent competition and some controversial tweets - including some misleading infographics - have left many who follow the space industry feeling less than supportive of Jeff Bezos and his space company. These days, it feels as though billionaire-backed space companies are launching off Earth all the time. ![]()
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