Mining firm backed by Bezos and Gates to begin Greenland drilling
Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, said on Thursday it would begin drilling in Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles.
Billionaire-backed mining firm to seek electric vehicle metals in Greenland
Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has signed an agreement with London-listed Bluejay Mining (JAY.L) to search in Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles.
Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract
Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the U.S. space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the moon.
Bezos-backed plant food firm NotCo joins unicorn club after latest funding
Jeff Bezos-backed food-tech firm NotCo said on Monday it raised $235 million in its latest funding round that also included athletes Lewis Hamilton and Roger Federer, valuing the plant-based food company at $1.5 billion.
Jeff Bezos is the first person to launch into space aboard the New Shepard rocket ship!
Billionaire Jeff Bezos has launched his rocket spaceship, New Shepard, into orbit for the first time with a crew. Mark Bezos was brought by his brother, Wally Funk, an 82-year-old space expert, and an 18-year-old student. The New Shepard spacecraft, created by Bezos’ company Blue Origin, is aimed at the expanding space tourism business. Mr. […]
‘Road to space’: billionaire Bezos has successful suborbital jaunt
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person, soared some 66.5 miles (107 km) above the Texas desert aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned safely to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps usher in a new era of space tourism.
Factbox: Jeff Bezos’ journey from suburban garage to edge of space
U.S. business mogul Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), is set to launch into space aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on Tuesday, nine days after rival Richard Branson became the first billionaire astronaut.
Factbox: Bezos, Branson and Musk: Who is winning the space tourism race?
Three billionaire entrepreneurs – Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson – are each vying to usher in a new era of private commercial space travel.
Factbox: The challenges facing Amazon’s new CEO, Andy Jassy
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) on Monday got a new chief executive: Andy Jassy, the mastermind behind its lucrative cloud computing division, who succeeds company founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos to fly to space next month
Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month.
