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Musk's SpaceX was the sole winner in the competition, beating Blue Origin and a third company, Dynetics of Huntsville, Ala., a defense contractor. Dynetics also filed a protest with the G.A.O. on Monday.Oct 13, 2021

The New Shepard booster lands after the vehicle's flight on Dec. 11, 2019. While there won't be humans on Blue Origin's 17th New Shepard mission, the fully reusable launch vehicle will carry technologies from NASA, industry, and academia aboard.Aug 24, 2021

It was its first trip to space with passengers, a milestone that signified a step toward a future with regular launches of crews of paying customers, including space tourists. But this milestone, which put Blue Origin into the spotlight, also seems to have been a turning point for how the public views Bezos' company.Aug 25, 2021

Share All sharing options for: Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef. Jeff Bezos' spaceflight venture Blue Origin announced plans to build its own free-flying space station today. ... Dream Chaser is scheduled to begin cargo flights in 2022.Oct 25, 2021

Musk, co-founder of publicly traded Tesla and closely held rocket company SpaceX, has added $122.3 billion to his fortune this year, pushing his net worth to $292 billion, according to the Bloomberg index. Amazon.com Inc. founder Bezos is worth $196.3 billion.Oct 27, 2021

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is one of the key figureheads in the emergent new space race, but he hasn't gone to space himself. Elon Musk may have an impressive track record in the new space race, but he hasn't actually gone to space himself. ... Bezos and Branson both flew past the boundaries of space — depending on who you ask.Jul 26, 2021

Blue Origin sued NASA in August, contending that the agency unfairly awarded to SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract in April to conduct the first two missions to the moon. ... The launches that were the subject of the dispute are to be part of Artemis, NASA's flagship effort to build an American presence on the lunar surface.Nov 10, 2021

If there were any rocket company expected to be at a comparable level of technological achievement to SpaceX, it is Blue Origin. The company was founded by the former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in 2000, just two years before SpaceX set up shop in California.Oct 16, 2021

In their statements, both Virgin Galactic and SpaceX explicitly refer to the sheer adventure of going to space as their primary motivation. Blue Origin, by contrast, states that its mission is to preserve Earth's resources by transferring millions (and eventually billions) of humans to live and work in space.Nov 30, 2021