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The company was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon. [4] [5] Rob Meyerson joined the company in 2003 and served as the CEO before leaving the company in 2018. [6] Bob Smith served as CEO from 2018 to 2023. [7] The current CEO is Dave Limp. [8] Little is known about the company's activities in its early years.
(Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew - including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s - from West Texas to the edge of space on Sunday ...
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
In 2000, Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin as a space start-up looking to lower the cost of space launch. According to information from S&P Global Market Intelligence , that was actually two years ...
Jeff Bezos gave a tour of Blue Origin's factory, showcasing the space company's New Glenn rocket. New Glenn, standing over 320 feet tall, is one of the largest rockets ever built.
The mission was the sixteenth flight of the company's New Shepard integrated launch vehicle and spacecraft, and its first crewed flight. It carried into space American billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, pilot and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk, and Dutch student Oliver Daemen.
Blue Origin is reinventing itself under a new CEO, who spent 15 years at Amazon. A culture change and new launch could help it compete with SpaceX.
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -The chief executive officer of Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the end of the year to be replaced by former Amazon executive Dave ...