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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.
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
In 1968, physicist Ralph Lapp argued that if NASA really did have a positive ROI, it should be able to sustain itself as a private company, and not require federal funding. [36] More recently, critics have faulted NASA for sinking money into the Space Shuttle program, reducing funding available for its long-term missions to Mars and deep space ...
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 ...
Minority owned by some EU states Astra Space: Rocket 3, Rocket 4 Rocket 3 retired in August 2022 [40] Firefly Aerospace: Firefly Alpha, Firefly MLV IHI Corporation: Epsilon Some R&D by JAXA Mitsubishi Heavy Industries: H-IIA R&D done by JAXA. [226] Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems: Antares, Minotaur Own launchers, funded by NASA Rocket Lab ...
Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring the moon. 2 privately built moon landers carried into space by SpaceX ...