The billionaire unveiled his unmanned lunar lander dubbed Blue Moon and spoke of his hopes to send people to the moon by 2024.
Blue Origin is developing its New Shepard rocket for short space tourism trips and a heavy-lift launch rocket called New Glenn for satellite launch contracts.
It is aiming to deliver the New Glenn rocket by 2021, while launching humans in a suborbital flight later this year atop its rocket-and-capsule New Shepard.Mr Bezos has talked about his broader vision of enabling a future in which millions of people live and work in space.Unveiling his moon landing plan, he spoke of the importance of future human colonisation of space and mentioned two important issues: reducing launch costs and using resources already in space."It's in the form of ice.
and aerospace incumbents such as United Launch Alliance, a partnership between Boeing Co and Lockheed Martin. While Mr Bezos is angling to become a leading player in space exploration and win business from the US government, he has been the target of repeated criticism from President Donald Trump, who has referred to him as Jeff"Bozo".More stories
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