Bezos’ Blue Origin launches first crew to edge of space since 2022 grounding
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew – including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s – from West Texas…
Bezos uses Amazon to relaunch Blue Origin
Blue Origin: Jeff Bezos knows how to do maths well and does not discount. Leaving Amazon in the summer of 2021, the company founder has gradually stepped away from the…
Blue Origin, Cerberus looking to buy rocket firm United Launch Alliance
By Akash Sriram (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and private equity firm Cerberus are among companies that have shown interest in buying rocket company United Launch Alliance (ULA), the…
Ground issue delays Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket launch
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos‘ space company Blue Origin called off a return-to-flight mission with its suborbital New Shepard rocket in Texas over what it described as…
Amazon shareholder sues board, Bezos over Blue Origin launch contracts
By Chandni Shah and Abinaya Vijayaraghavan (Reuters) – An Amazon shareholder has filed a lawsuit against founder Jeff Bezos and the Amazon board alleging directors failed to fully vet a…
Bezos’ Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build astronaut lunar lander
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A team led by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin won a coveted $3.4 billion NASA contract to build a spacecraft to fly astronauts to and…
Twitter blue bird has flown as Musk says X logo is here
By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter Twitter blue: STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Elon Musk and Twitter Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino unveiled a logo for the social media platform on Monday…
Bluesky the decentralised social network wants to be the new Twitter
How and why the platform designed by Jack Dorsey can succeed Having left Twitter after creating it, Jack Dorsey now aims to write another page in the history of social networks with Bluesky. A platform that, in…
Musk halts Twitter’s coveted blue check amid proliferation of imposters
By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) – Twitter Inc paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday as fake accounts mushroomed, and new owner Elon Musk brought back the…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft sends first astronaut crew to orbit
By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – Boeing’s new Starliner capsule flew its first crew of astronauts to orbit on Wednesday from Florida in a much-delayed test mission to…