Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon as well as space company Blue Origin, talks about the future of commercial space travel.
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Blue Origin, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is considering hiring an “orbital habitat formulation lead,” according to a post in the Jobs earlier this week.
Purposeful recruitment represents the company’s first step towards developing livable space stations. It’s a step that sits perfectly close to the center of Bezos’ vision for the Blue Origin, where “millions of people are working in space for the benefit of the Earth,” especially the “industries that stress the Earth into space.”
“Blue Origin’s formulation lead to the Orbital Habitat product line … will lead to the development of technical concepts, product strategies, business cases, customer relationships, market shaping reach, industrial industrial partnerships, implementation approaches and supply chain,” the company wrote. Job posting.
The Blue Origin that seeks to create habitable spaces will be “fundamentally different” from the International Space Station, which currently orbits the Earth. While the ISS is essentially a laboratory focused on microgravity research, Blue Origin describes its space stations as a “destination” for the public, “separate from the habitat” for small, professionally trained crews. “The company plans to build and launch such space stations in the next decade.
Blue Origin has landed a New Shepard rocket booster at its facility in West Texas.
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Building space stations will be at the forefront of Blue Origin’s business. Since its inception nearly 20 years ago, Bezos’ company has worked to develop next-generation rocket and rocket engines, as well as a capsule capable of carrying humans to the edge of space for short flights and lunar landers to bring NASA astronauts to the lunar surface beneath the moon. Blue Origin has yet to fly passengers on its rockets, CEO Bob Smith said earlier this year, adding that the company will have to fly three or four more test flights before boarding the new Shepard rocket.
Bezos personally funds the development of Blue Origin by selling a portion of its stock to Amazon. While it has previously said it sells 1 billion billion Amazon shares annually to fund the space company, Bezos recently increased its stock sales, to more than 2 7.2 billion this year and 8 8 2.8 billion in 2019 – indicating that it Has increased its annual investment in Blue Origin.
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