He funds aerospace company Blue Origin, which is developing spacecraft in West Texas.
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As Blue Origin works on its next development, so does Amazon we presume, anyway.
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Blue Origin is one of several start-ups aiming to open up space travel to paying customers.
Only a few outsiders have been allowed a peak at the project, which Bezos calls Blue Origin.
Amazon.com co-founder and CEO Bezos is bankrolling Blue Origin , which aims to design and build small suborbital vehicles.
His spaceship company, Blue Origin, is working on a vehicle that would transport astronauts to the international space station.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is developing a suborbital vehicle at his company Blue Origin.
Dr. ADAM BRUCKNER (University of Washington): I know the team that's been assembled by Blue Origin and they're top notch.
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has wrapped his Blue Origin operation in secrecy, but the pictures on his Web site suggest he's spending millions.
Other projects include Blue Origin, a start-up run by Amazon.com Inc.
Bezos has been funneling money into Blue Origin for years in an attempt to build a successful vertical take-off, vertical landing rocket.
Blue Origin has received millions of dollars in NASA funding to develop its commercial space travel program, including a launch escape system.
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Although this was a setback, the announcement of the loss revealed for the first time just how far Blue Origin's team had advanced.
As the investments in both Blue Origin and the 10, 000-year clock show, it is the challenge of reaching for distant horizons that really makes Amazon's boss tick.
Now, Bezos Expeditions also an investor in space research firm Blue Origin will attempt to bring the five F-1 rocket launchers up from 14, 000 feet below.
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Some residents spoke to Forbes at the time, describing the accident as resembling the infamous Challenger explosion, and adding that Blue Origin remains something of a mystery even locally.
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The financial backers of these companies -- Elon Musk of SpaceX or Blue Origin's (and Amazon's) Jeff Bezos -- have invested hundreds of millions of dollars of their own fortunes.
In addition to his interest in neuroscience, Bezos has long funded a secretive aerospace company called Blue Origin, which made headlines in August when one of their unmanned spacecrafts blew up during a test flight.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has always been incredibly secretive about his own space investment, a company called Blue Origin based near Seattle but with a rocket launch facility out in the wilds of west Texas.
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Virgin's Richard Branson has started Virgin Galactic in an attempt to sell suborbital trips to ordinary citizens, and Amazon.com 's JeffBezosJeff Bezos has started a company called Blue Origin to create a private suborbital space vehicle.
Larry Simpson, publisher of local newspaper the Van Horn Advocate, knew the test flight was set to take place, but not because Blue Origin told him in fact, they never tell him anything, he said.
The Blue Origin company, which received funds from Nasa for some of its early development work, said it continued to work on a crew transport system even though it was no longer getting any financial support from the agency.
The origin of the blue-chip meteorite market was a 1995 natural history auction at Phillips in New York, for which an entertainment manager named Darryl Pitt selected some 15 meteorites from his personal collection and photographed them as if they were masterpieces of modern art.
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