The American billionaire is due to fly on an 11-minute voyage to the edge of space
VAN HORN, Texas (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, is set on Tuesday to blast off aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard https://graphics.reuters.com/SPACE-EXPLORATION/BLUEORIGIN/jbyprzzympe/blue-origin.jpg launch vehicle for a suborbital flight as part of a history-making crew - another milestone in ushering in a new era of private space travel.
It's likely to be a busy year for space developments, as Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos prepares for a space trip next week in a Blue Origin rocket
Bezos, 57, stepped down last week as Amazon's CEO.
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bought a $250,000 ticket to space from fellow billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic
Shares of Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. jumped as much as 22% in premarket U.S. trading on Monday, just above an all-time peak reached in February.
Sunday's launch of the VSS Unity passenger rocket plane marked the company's 22nd test flight of its SpaceShipTwo system, and its fourth crewed mission beyond Earth's atmosphere.
This comes following a successful test flight last month
China successfully launched its longest crewed space mission to date on June 17
Bestselling author Stephen Walker has produced an utterly binge-worthy yet sobering history of spaceflight set against the biggest existential conflict of the 20th century
The station will rival the ageing International Space Station (ISS).
Article 5 of NATO's founding treaty states that attack on any one of the 30 allies will be considered an attack on them all.
International agreement will boost India's space capabilities
In 2011, Space Adventures, a space tourism company that successfully sent seven clients to orbital journey, suggested the number of space tourists could reach 140 by 2020 but little changed since then
Blue Origin, billionaire Jeff Bezos' rocket company, disclosed $2 million as the current highest bid for a seat on its New Shepherd spacecraft after the startup closed the first phase of its auction.
Navigating the celestial traffic jam caused by defunct rockets, satellites and their debris is both challenging and dangerous
EU Space Surveillance and Tracking said its latest prediction for the timing of the re-entry of the Long March 5B rocket body was 190 minutes either side of 0211 GMT on Sunday
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that it was tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend
SpaceX launched four astronauts toward orbit Friday using a recycled rocket and capsule
The growing list of "firsts" for Perseverance, NASA's newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet's thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen