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☆ Jeff Bezos' partner Lauren Sánchez talked about being rejected as flight attendant because of her weight and becoming a pilot instead
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Taiyler Simone Mitchell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Media personality Lauren Sánchez has been publically dating billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos since 2019. Sánchez was also married to her former spouse, Patrick Whitesell, the executive chairman at William Morris Endeavor, at the time. "This is one of the only places I feel entirely in control," Sánchez told the outlet. "I don't know why more women don't do it," she told The Journal. "It's going to be women who are making a difference in the world and who are impactful and have a message to send,'" Sánchez told The Journal.

☆ Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in 50 years — and the reasons are depressing
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Dave Mosher | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. But those stays during the Apollo program didn't establish a lasting human presence on the moon. Researchers and entrepreneurs have long pushed for the creation of a crewed base on the moon — a lunar space station. But many astronauts and other experts suggest the biggest impediments to making new crewed moon missions a reality are banal and somewhat depressing. During NASA's Apollo program, 12 people landed on the moon.

☆ Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin insists its passengers eat breakfast but avoid coffee and orange juice before they blast into space
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Blue Origin likes to ensure passengers tuck into breakfast before launching to the edge of space. The Hagles told Insider about their experience of flying with Blue Origin. In the days before a rocket launch, Blue Origin passengers stay in the Astronaut Village campsite in the Texas desert, around 15 miles away from the company's launch site near Van Horn. Blue Origin laid a full spread out for them, the couple said. During the interview, they also agreed with fellow Blue Origin astronaut William Shatner about space trips triggering feelings of grief and intense emotions.

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Origin Energy Ltd (ORG.AX), Australia's no.2 power producer and energy retailer, backed an A$18.4 billion ($11.8 billion) non-binding buyout offer from a consortium led by Canada's Brookfield Asset Management, the companies said on Thursday. The deal sent Origin's share price soaring nearly 40% in early trade to A$8.14. Origin opened its books to the consortium after it raised its offer to A$9 per share in cash, a near 55% premium to Origin's last close of A$5.81. The bid from Brookfield comes after it was rebuffed earlier this year when it led a $3.5 billion takeover offer for Australia's top power producer, AGL Energy (AGL.AX). Under the indicative proposal submitted on Thursday, Brookfield would acquire Origin's energy markets business, while MidOcean Energy, the other consortium partner, would take control of Origin's integrated gas business, including its 27.5% stake in Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG).

☆ William Shatner was right, say 2 Blue Origin astronauts: space flights do trigger emotions of grief and sadness
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Blue Origin astronauts agreed with William Shatner's feelings of grief after flying into space. The Star Trek actor said his Blue Origin spaceflight felt like a funeral and all he saw was sadness. Sharon and Marc Hagle at Blue Origin facility in Texas. Everybody has their own takeaway and emotional experiences based on their lives on Earth, Marc added: "Even now, we're tearing up." Three days after launching with Blue Origin, the couple went to watch a rocket launch together.

☆ Jeff Bezos responds to criticism over investing in space travel instead of solving problems on Earth: 'We go to space not to abandon our home, but to protect it'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In a speech at the Vatican, Jeff Bezos addressed people who ask why he invests "so much into space." The former Amazon CEO said investing in going to space will benefit the Earth and "protect it." The goal for Blue Origin, Bezos has previously said, is to make traveling to space cheaper, more frequent, and more accessible. In 2018, Bezos said Blue Origin was "the most important work I'm doing," in an interview with Axel Springer's CEO Mathias Döpfner. Bezos founded the Bezos Earth Fund in 2020, which will disburse $10 billion, committed by Bezos, in the current decade to fight climate change and protect nature.

☆ United Launch Alliance's debut Vulcan mission slips to 2023 -CEO
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Joey Roulette | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - United Launch Alliance has pushed the debut launch of its new Vulcan rocket to early 2023 at the request of one of its customers, the company's chief executive said, further delaying a benchmark mission crucial to the Boeing-Lockheed joint venture's launch business. Vulcan, a roughly 200 foot-tall rocket in the final stages of development, will be the centerpiece to ULA's launch business. Vulcan, priced at roughly $110 million per launch, already has some 80 contracted missions lined up. It will compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9, priced roughly $62 million per launch, and Blue Origin's forthcoming New Glenn rocket, which uses the same engines as Vulcan. If Astrobotic's lander is delayed beyond Q1 2023, ULA would replace it with a pickup truck-sized dummy payload in order to meet the narrowing window of time to demonstrate Vulcan for the Space Force.

☆ Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

William Shatner became the oldest person to journey to space when he flew on Blue Origin in October 2021. The 11-minute flight reached 66 miles above Earth, where Shatner may have seen deserts, mountains, and water. The Star Trek actor described space as dreadful "ominous blackness," but was wowed by Earth's beauty. ReutersBefore the journey, Shatner expressed excitement about finally seeing space with his own eyes, describing the opportunity as "a miracle." Bettmann/Getty ImagesIn the film, Gagarin said he could see forests, and described Earth as "visible and distinct," but many areas were "covered with cumulus clouds."

☆ William Shatner describes space travel in new book "Boldly Go"
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN interviewed him in June about the book, his trip to space with the Jeff Bezos-backed space tourism company Blue Origin, and what’s next for the 91-year-old. William Shatner: Fifty-five or 60 years ago I read a book called “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson. Shatner: The whole idea here is to get people accustomed to going to space, as if it’s like going to the Riviera. The song “So Fragile, So Blue,” is very much about my experience in space. And then I have my book, called “Boldly Go,” coming out in the fall.

☆ William Shatner says his trip to space on Blue Origin 'felt like a funeral': 'It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered'
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

In his new book, William Shatner wrote that going to space "felt like a funeral." The "Star Trek" actor went to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin last October, when he was 90. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered." "My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral," he wrote. Chris Boshuizen, a former NASA engineer; Glen de Vries, a healthcare entrepreneur; and Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin executive, joined Shatner aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket for the spaceflight.

☆ See how NASA's new lunar mega-rocket sizes up to past and future astronaut launch systems
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Space Launch System (SLS) is 17 years and an estimated $50 billion in the making. The Space Launch System (SLS) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 17, 2022. This first mission, called Artemis I, is a test flight that will carry no astronauts. The current iteration of SLS, called Block 1, stands taller than the Statue of Liberty at 322 feet, about 30 stories. NASA/Cory HustonIf Artemis I goes well, the next SLS mission will send an Orion spaceship around the moon with astronauts on board.

Blue Origin suffered a mishap Monday during an uncrewed launch of its New Shepard capsule. A rocket failure roughly a minute after liftoff forced the company to perform an emergency abort midflight, triggering the spacecraft's escape system. Blue Origin officials confirmed the launch anomaly on Twitter, adding that the escape system "performed as designed." Blue Origin via APMonday's launch marked the 23rd flight of New Shepard. Blue Origin has conducted six suborbital missions to date with humans on board.

☆ An engineer who's booked to fly on Bezos' Blue Origin will become the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space. She says she had to keep her career dreams secret because of discrimination in the space
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-28 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Katya Echazarreta will be the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space, via Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin. She told Insider she's kept her career dreams secret because people said she couldn't accomplish them. Echazarreta will be one of the six passengers to fly in Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, after attending three days of training. Katya Echazarreta is the first Mexican-born woman to fly to space. She said that she's dreamed of going to space her whole life, but never expected to go this soon.

☆ Pollution from SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic's rockets could harm human health as well as Earth's climate, study says
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-19 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fumes from SpaceX and Blue Origin's rockets could harm health and the climate, a study showed. It said the concentration of nitrogen oxides released by a rocket was "hazardous to human health." The rise in launches by commercial space firms may have a big impact on the climate, per the study. The increase in rocket launches by commercial space companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic "could have a significant cumulative effect on climate," the study said. Blue Origin is planning its fifth human flight to the edge of space in May after already launching its resuable New Shepard rocket in March.

☆ Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million to fly to space with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin — but will donate his seat to a New York schoolteacher, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-10 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin paid $8 million for a seat on a Blue Origin space flight. The $8 million Griffin paid represents a $20 million price drop from the first ticket sold for a crewed Blue Origin spaceflight — although one of the passengers on the first flight was Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. A Blue Origin ticket includes training days, on-site accommodation at Astronaut Village in the Texas desert, and the actual flight itself, Insider previously reported. On Monday, Blue Origin announced the passengers for its fifth crewed launch to the edge of space.

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