New Shepard

…introduce a crewed suborbital spacecraft, New Shepard, in 2018 and an orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, in 2020. Bezos bought The Washington Post and affiliated publications for $250 million in 2013. Bezos’s net worth was calculated in 2026 at $224 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.

…second flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft.

founder Jeff Bezos, developed its New Shepard spacecraft (named for American astronaut Alan Shepard). With its bullet-shaped fuselage, New Shepard takes off and lands vertically, in contrast to the mother-ship deployment of SpaceShipTwo. New Shepard made its first flight on July 20, 2021, with a crew of Bezos; his brother…