"Blue Origin"

Beam me up, Jeffrey.

William Shatner, who as Capt. James T. Kirk on the TV series "Star Trek" flew the USS Enterprise around the galaxy, on Wednesday reached the edge of space on a more modest quest, on a far less capable spacecraft but in a mission that had the distinct advantage of being real.

SEATTLE - In 2019, a mid-level employee at Jeff Bezoss Blue Origin had grown fed up with the company, and as he left, he wrote a long memo that he sent to Bezos, chief executive Bob Smith and other senior leaders: "Our current culture is toxic to our success and many can see it spreading throughout the company."

Jeff Bezos Blue Origin space company on Monday pressed its campaign to win a slice of NASAs lucrative lunar lander contract, filing a suit in federal court in an attempt to force NASA to fund a second spacecraft to ferry astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

Jeff Bezoss Blue Origin spaceflight company has publicly offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA contract fees so it can remain involved in the U.S. governments effort to return astronauts to the moon.

VAN HORN, Texas - Jeff Bezos rocketed past the edge of space Tuesday, launching from the improbable spaceport he has built in the West Texas desert here and fulfilling the lifelong dream of a die-hard Trekkie who was transfixed by the Apollo 11 moon landing and has pledged to use his fortune to open space for the masses.

The billionaire space race is heating up.

A couple of weeks after Jeff Bezos officially steps down as CEO of Amazon, hell leap into something more mythic: riding to the edge of space aboard one of his own rockets, alongside his brother, in a flight that would fulfill a lifelong dream.

Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Jeff Bezos, said Wednesday that it would fly people to the edge of space for the first time this summer and that one of the seats would go to the winner of an online auction intended to raise money for its nonprofit foundation.

Blue Origin, the rocket venture founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, executed what it called an "astronaut rehearsal" of its suborbital New Shepard rocket Wednesday, launching the craft to the edge of space after having employees board as if they were going to travel with it, then disembarking before liftoff.

For the first time in 10 months, Jeff Bezos's secretive space company on Tuesday flew a rocket to the edge of space from its remote launch site in West Texas. The successful flight came after a more than two-week delay and was Blue Origin's 13th trip to space, bringing it another step closer to one day ferrying paying customers there.