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Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA / ˈ n æ s ə /) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States' civil space program, aeronautics research and space research.
As of September 2014, eBay has acquired over 40 companies, the most expensive of which was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$2.6 billion in cash plus up to an additional US$1.5 billion if certain performance goals were met. [2] The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States.
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and U.S. special government employee, best known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc., SpaceX, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and his ownership of Twitter.
The Nova-C Odysseus spacecraft landed on the Moon’s south pole region on Thursday, with the news confirmed just before 6.40pm eastern time
The Atlas V's launch of NASA's InSight to Mars in 2018 was the first interplanetary probe to depart from the U.S. West Coast. [79] In August 2018, a Delta IV Heavy launched Parker Solar Probe, NASA's solar space probe that was to visit and study the Sun's outer corona in August 2018. [143]
The private market valuation of Relativity Space -- once a dark horse darling of space investors -- roll into reverse at the same time as it's been forced to abandon one rocket design and switch ...
Today, NASA isn’t hoping to merely make it to the moon, but to lay the groundwork for establishing a “long-term presence” there and eventually use it as a launching pad to send humans to Mars.