AIR AND SPACE

Jeff Bezos has sent an open letter to NASA administrator Bill Nelson offering to help the agency cover over $2 billion in costs in exchange for awarding a second Human Landing System (HLS) contract to Blue Origin.

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.

As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos launched into space on Tuesday aboard a Blue Origin rocket, back on Earth a Democratic lawmaker announced a measure to levy taxes commercial spaceflight.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said Tuesday that the aerospace company founded in 2000 is already nearing $100 million in private sales.

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos caught the internet's attention Tuesday – but it was his fashion choice, not his space flight, that caused a stir.

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is set to take off for space on Tuesday, bringing along a crew that is poised to make history.

Jeff Bezos and the three passengers who will be accompanying the Blue Origin CEO into space on June 20 arrived in West Texas on Friday in preparation for the launch.

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.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved a Blue Origin license Monday to carry humans into space on its New Shapard launch system, a day after Richard Branson successfully completed a test flight into space with Virgin Galactic. 

Founder and CEO of Space Perspective Taber MacCallum joined "Varney & Co." Monday with insight into the latest travel venture in the space tourism race: a balloon.

Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson is set to leapfrog Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos to become the first billionaire in space when the British entrepreneur launches into space Sunday, nine days ahead of Bezos's first planned ascent.

As billionaire Richard Branson braces to fly to the edge space Sunday, his daughter took to social media to reminisce about watching her father prepare for past adventures.

Blue Origin took shots at competitor Virgin Galactic on Twitter Friday night, comparing offerings to customers using a recent Aerospace Research Central study.

The planned undocking of SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station has been delayed due to Tropical Storm Elsa.

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk is continuing his criticism of the United Launch Association for accepting government money.

Jeff Bezoses, Amazon CEO and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, has selected an 82-year-old female aerospace pioneer to travel to space with him on July 20.

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit successfully used its unique mid-air launch system to send commercial satellites into orbit for the first time on Wednesday morning.

SpaceX was seconds away from sending dozens of satellites into orbit aboard its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday when the launch was called off because an airplane entered its safety zone.

NASA's Office of the Inspector General warned in a May report that "attempts to steal critical information are increasing in both complexity and severity," with phishing attempts against NASA doubling and malware attacks increasing "exponentially" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The aerospace company kicked off the three-phase online auction in early May, offering one seat on the first flight of its New Shepard spacecraft which has already had over a dozen successful flights to and from space, according to Blue Origin.