Washington: Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos wrote an open letter to NASA on Monday offering a $2 billion discount to allow his company to build a Moon lander. The human landing system (HLS) contract, worth $2.9 billion, was awarded to rival SpaceX in April, but Blue Origin and a third company Dynetics filed protests…
Mary Wallace Funk was supposed to go to space 60 years ago, she also passed the necessary tests but the only thing that stopped her from going to space was her gender. HIGHLIGHTS Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and his brother will be accompanied by an 82-year-old female pilot to space. Mary Wallace Funk, the 82-year-old female…
Jeff Bezos, who is soon to assume chair as the executive chairman of Amazon, will fly to space on the first space flight by his rocket company Blue Origin on July 20. HIGHLIGHTS A man with probably a lot of money in his accounts just shelled out $28 million to share the spacecraft with the world’s richest man,…