Bezos himself was seated in the capsule for Tuesday’s space trip makes plain that he is putting spaceflight at the top of his spending list. Bezos would typically spend a day a week - usually Wednesdays - focused on Blue Origin. In recent years before he stepped down as chief executive of Amazon, Mr. Bezos announced that he would sell $1 billion of Amazon stock a year to fund the space venture, and Blue Origin has already pursued a range of business opportunities, such as trying to win contracts for a moon lander for NASA astronauts as well as launching satellites for the Department of Defense on large reusable rockets. Bezos “has a huge, long-term vision that is multigenerational.” She added that his intent for Blue Origin was to “compete for even higher stakes” in the growing business of space. Lori Garver, who served as deputy administrator of NASA during the Obama administration, said that Mr. The company has ambitions of a scale far beyond short flights for space tourists, and it is backed by the entrepreneur who made Amazon into an economic powerhouse. Bezos more than 20 years ago, to be a more significant contender in the future space economy. Bezos was beaten to space last week by Richard Branson, the British entrepreneur who flew in a rocket plane from his company Virgin Galactic, some analysts consider Blue Origin, founded by Mr. It was a brief jaunt - rising more than 65 miles into the sky above West Texas - in a spacecraft that was built by Mr. VAN HORN, Texas - Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday.

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