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Jeff Bezos plans to live-stream Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight

For his next trick, Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos plans to have his Blue Origin space venture send its New Shepard rocket… Read More

Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin’s next spaceflight will test parachute failure

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos predicts there’ll be a problem with a parachute the next time his Blue Origin venture flies… Read More

Blue Origin and SpaceX revisit their latest rocket landings in must-see videos

Will seeing a spaceship land on its feet ever get old? The novelty is still there in newly released videos… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Innovation of the Year

Crowdsourced package delivery, wireless over-the-air device charging, an atlas of the human brain, dynamic 3D face reconstruction, and a rocket… Read More

United Launch Alliance’s CEO weighs Blue Origin’s chances in multibillion-dollar rocket engine race

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – United Launch Alliance’s president and CEO, Tory Bruno, is facing a 2019 deadline from Congress to come… Read More

Interview: Jeff Bezos lays out Blue Origin’s space vision, from tourism to off-planet heavy industry

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn’t focused on creating America’s biggest online retailer when he was… Read More

Jeff Bezos describes future space tours – and explains why he passed up a moon trip

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his chance to go into space in a Russian Soyuz… Read More

Jeff Bezos: What the commercial space industry can learn from the Internet revolution

Jeff Bezos has the rare distinction of helping to lead two revolutions: the rise of e-commerce starting more than two decades ago… Read More

Video: Jeff Bezos shares drone’s-eye view of Blue Origin spaceship’s flight

Saturday’s test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship marked lots of milestones, including the first time a drone captured video… Read More

Jeff Bezos live-tweets ‘flawless’ test flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos served as launch commentator today for a risky but successful third flight of Blue Origin’s New… Read More

Jeff Bezos lets the world know about Blue Origin’s craziest spaceship test flight yet

Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin rocket venture will put its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to its sternest test… Read More

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos proposed a ‘disemvowel’ feature for the Washington Post

If you thought the Fire Phone was a flop, consider the Jeff Bezos ideas that never made it off the… Read More

ULA exec resigns after controversial comments about Blue Origin, SpaceX and U.S. government

The VP of Engineering at United Launch Alliance (ULA), Brett Tobey, has resigned after comments he made in a Tuesday… Read More

Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin highlight small steps toward giant space leaps

In the past few weeks, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space venture and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture have both… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Inside Jeff Bezos’ rocket factory with space journalist Alan Boyle

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave a small group of journalists, including GeekWire aerospace and science editor Alan Boyle, a guided tour… Read More

Legislation aimed at boosting Washington state’s space industry fizzles out

Two measures that would have lent a hand to Washington state’s fledgling space industry have been stalled in committee and aren’t likely… Read More

Jeff Bezos lifts curtain on Blue Origin rocket factory, lays out grand plan for space travel that spans hundreds of years

KENT, Wash. – For the first time, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos guided a pack of journalists around his Blue Origin… Read More

Blue Origin, ULA and Aerojet win Air Force contracts for U.S.-made rocket engines

Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is among the beneficiaries in a set of Air Force… Read More

Why this 9-year-old visited Amazon’s secret drone facility, and delivered a package to Jeff Bezos

A few days before the New Year, a 9-year-old boy named Evan was granted a wish: to fly from his hometown of… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture provides glimpses of its road ahead

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, is lifting the curtain just a bit on its future… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin does it again: Used rocket goes into space and lands intact

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent up its New Shepard suborbital spaceship on another flight test to outer-space… Read More

Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson ribs space billionaires amid Blue Origin buzz

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture may have done another flight test, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX is making… Read More

Twitter truce: Jeff Bezos takes the high road, offers kudos to Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Rocket launches can sometimes turn into flame wars, as shown by last year’s Twitter tug of war between space-minded billionaires Jeff… Read More

Billionaire Space Club pits Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos vs. Richard Branson vs. Paul Allen and more

When Jeff Bezos welcomed SpaceX to the rocket landing “club” last week, it set off a round of twittering over… Read More

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GeekWire Radio: Alan Boyle’s guide to the year in space, and what’s next for the universe in 2016

It was a big year in space: Historic rocket launches; revelations from distant planets; an unprecedented glimpse of the surface of Pluto; evidence… Read More

Lawmakers geek out over Washington state’s rising space industry

Washington state legislators got an introduction to the state’s space industry today at Seattle’s Museum of Flight – and voiced amazement at… Read More

Video: Jeff Bezos spotlights Blue Origin’s ‘very happy’ rocket scientists after touchdown

“Touchdown” means something different to rocket scientists and to football fans, but the cheering, hugs and high fives are the same… Read More

Exclusive: Jeff Bezos speaks out on Blue Origin, SpaceX and space trips: ‘I can’t wait to go!’

Amazon’s billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, says watching his Blue Origin rocket make a safe landing after flying into space rates as… Read More

Wow! Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sends New Shepard rocket ship to space – and gets it back safely

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, successfully sent its New Shepard rocket ship to outer… Read More

Jeff Bezos says next flight test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship should come ‘very soon’

Even as Jeff Bezos celebrates past achievements in spaceflight, he’s looking forward to seeing his Blue Origin space venture make future achievements.… Read More