Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, launched the aerospace company Blue Origin in September 2000.
In December 2024, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued Blue Origin a Part 450 commercial space launch license and cleared the rocket, the New Glenn, for launch. Blue Origin called off the launch of its New Glenn rocket after encountering "a few anomalies" during the mission countdown.
In July 2021, the FAA approved a Blue Origin license to carry humans into space on its New Shepard launch system.
In 2023, the first New Shepard flight since its grounding in 2022 brought 33 payloads and 38,000 postcards on its 10-minute flight to space.
In April 2025, Blue Origin announced the New Shepard NS-31 mission, an all-female spaceflight carrying Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn, and Amanda Nguyen.
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Jeff Bezos offers NASA billions for Blue Origin favor
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Recent high school graduate Oliver Daemen became the youngest person to go into space Tuesday morning after he secured one of four seats on billionaire Jeff Bezos’ first crewed Blue Origin flight that blasted off from Texas Tuesday morning.
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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that the aerospace company founded in 2000 is already nearing $100 million in private sales.
Richard Branson congratulates Jeff Bezos on spaceflight
Bezos and his crewmates touched down in the West Texas desert at the end of the more than 10-minute flight on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Jeff Bezos' cowboy hat at Blue Origin space flight lights up the internet
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Elon Musk wishes Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin crew good luck ahead of spaceflight
The SpaceX CEO on Tuesday wished Blue Origin's crew, including founder Jeff Bezos, good luck on Twitter ahead of the company's first crewed spaceflight.
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Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is set to take off for space on Tuesday, bringing along a crew that is poised to make history.
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Bezos' Blue Origin space flight crew to include 18-year-old student
Blue Origin revealed Thursday that Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old student and aspiring pilot, will join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the firm’s inaugural space flight later this month.
Blue Origin says first paying customer on New Shepard will be youngest person in space
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced Thursday that an 18-year-old would be the first paying customer to fly onboard its New Shepard suborbital rocket — and the youngest person to ever go to space.
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Jeff Bezos made the largest donation to the Smithsonian since the museum was first founded this week, giving $70 million to renovate the National Air and Space Museum and $130 million to build a new education complex.