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Space tech start-ups raise record funding amid billionaire hype
Space-related technology is a $200 billion market that spans companies building products and services to use on Earth, in orbit or for space exploration and colonization missions
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Can Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin be more than space joyrides for the rich?
The first billionaire in space has excited some, feeling that they too may one day see the Earth from 85km if they can afford $250,000 for a one-hour trip
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Space investors need more than Richard Branson's trip to boost ETFs
It's likely to be a busy year for space developments, as Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos prepares for a space trip next week in a Blue Origin rocket
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Bezos' Blue Origin gets approval to send him, three others to space
Bezos, 57, stepped down last week as Amazon's CEO.
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Virgin Galactic ride: Race for space may not just be rich man's fun & game
Craft engineering may improve transport safety on Earth; also encourage space debris clean-up
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Space tourism spinoffs
Technology could find application in multiple areas
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Richard Branson vs Jeff Bezos: Who will really win this space race?
In a summer not lacking in awe-inspiring spectator sports, this rivalry remains pretty unique. And it's not without risk. It's taken a couple of decades for both men to realize their ambition of going
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New tool limits disruptions caused by space operations, says FAA
Federal regulators said they now can better track rocket launches and space vehicles returning to Earth, which could cut amount of time that airplanes must be routed around space operations
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Jeff Bezos retires officially, Andy Jassy takes over as Amazon CEO
Bezos founded Amazon exactly 24 years ago on July 5, 1994
Amazon to grant incoming CEO Andy Jassy over $200 million in stock
The award's exact value will depend on how the shares are trading when they pay out in future years, encouraging Jassy to grow a company that's worth $1.77 trillion today
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Amazon to grant new CEO Jassy over $200 million in stock
By Jeffrey Dastin
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Richard Branson plans first space trip days before Jeff Bezos blasts off
Branson will evaluate the "private astronaut experience," the company said, as Virgin Galactic prepares to offer flights to well-heeled customers in 2022.
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Richard Branson aims to make space trip on July 11, ahead of Jeff Bezos
Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson will travel to the edge of space on Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc's test flight on July 11, Branson's space tourism firm said
Jeff Bezos' 2021 Space Odyssey proves a risk too far for insurers
Launching one of the richest individuals on earth into orbit has proved a leap too far for insurers, who are not ready to price the risk of losing Jeff Bezos or his fellow space travelers.
Explained: Why do people want Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa?
An online petition that started as a joke has gone viral, becoming a kind of performance art piece all of its own
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MacKenzie Scott donates $2.7 bn more within a year, blasts wealth gap
Scott, 51, shook up the philanthropy world last year with the pace and magnitude of her giving.
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Bidder pays $28 mn to fly into space with Jeff Bezos next month
An auction for a ride into space next month alongside Jeff Bezos and his brother ended with a winning $28 million bid Saturday.
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25 richest Americans paid little to nothing in federal income taxes: Report
Billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk and George Soros benefit from a complex web of loopholes in tax code.
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Jeff Bezos plans to fly on Blue Origin's first human spaceflight
Blue Origin is auctioning off a seat on its New Shepard rocket for the July 20 flight, an 11-minute trip to suborbital space that will reach an altitude of about 100 km
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Jeff Bezos to join winner of seat on Blue Origin's first human space flight
Amazon founder says will travel to space with his brother and auction winner on July 20
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