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Jeff Bezos’ and Richard Branson’s recent space voyages have left many with questions around their carbon footprint. The answer depends on the spacecraft — and just how big commercial spaceflight comes.

Jeff Bezos blasted into space Tuesday on his rocket company’s first flight with people on board, becoming the second billionaire in just over a week to ride his own spacecraft.

When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos blasted off to the edge of space Tuesday, some of his most enthusiastic spectators were from the quiet ranching town of Van Horn, Texas, just 25 miles from the launch site of Bezos’ private spaceflight company Blue Origin. LX News host Jobeth Devera traveled to Van Horn to see how it has been transformed by...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos lifted off to space Tuesday on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard, the rocket ship made by his space company, Blue Origin.

When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board.

An 18-year-old is about to become the youngest person in space

Wally Funk will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas alongside Bezos, flying in the capsule for the 10-minute hop as an “honored guest”

The price to rocket into space next month with Jeff Bezos and his brother is a cool $28 million.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his brother will join the first human spaceflight from his private launch company Blue Origin next month, the billionaire said Monday in an Instagram post.

Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps

Companies are increasingly looking to space as a place of business, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has been changing in several different ways, especially by partnering with corporations to develop new technologies. Earlier this year NASA announced it would open the International Space Station to private astronauts, with short missions beginning as soon as 2020. Additionally, NASA said...

British billionaire Richard Branson’s space-tourism unit Virgin Galactic plans to go public later this year, the company announced Tuesday. The firm will list its shares as part of a merger deal with Social Capital Hedosophia, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. Social Capital Hedosophia, formed by Palihapitiya’s Social Capital and venture capital firm Hedosophia in...

British billionaire Richard Branson’s space-tourism unit Virgin Galactic plans to go public later this year, the company announced Tuesday. The firm will list its shares as part of a merger deal with Social Capital Hedosophia, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya. Social Capital Hedosophia, formed by Palihapitiya’s Social Capital and venture capital firm Hedosophia in...

Stratolaunch, the world’s largest airplane that flew only once, is up for sale. Holding company Vulcan is seeking to sell Stratolaunch at $400 million, people familiar with the matter told CNBC. Vulcan is the investment conglomerate of the late billionaire Paul Allen. A Microsoft co-founder, Allen passed away last October following complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Elon Musk has poked fun, in a rather crude way, at Jeff Bezos’ new spacecraft. On Thursday, Bezos’ space company Blue Origin unveiled its first lunar lander called “Blue Moon.”

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket company shot a capsule higher into space Wednesday than it’s ever done before. The New Shepard rocket blasted off from West Texas on the company’s latest test flight. Once the booster separated, the capsule’s escape motor fired, lifting the spacecraft to an altitude of 389,846 feet. That’s 74 miles or 119 kilometers. It’s part of...

Bill Gates told members of his charity that President Donald Trump asked if HPV and HIV were the same thing and knew a “scary” amount about his daughter’s physical appearance, according to video exclusively obtained by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, NBC News reported. The billionaire explained in the video, which aired Thursday night on “All In With Chris Hayes,” that he...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become the first $100 billion mogul to top Forbes’ annual rankings of the world’s richest people. But President Donald Trump’s fortune sank during his first year in office despite a surging stock market. The Bezos milestone, revealed in Tuesday’s release of Forbes’ closely watched list, underscores the growing clout of both Bezos and the company...

SpaceX’s hot new monster rocket makes its launch debut this week, blasting off from the same pad that hoisted men to the moon a half-century ago. The Falcon Heavy won’t surpass NASA’s Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit. It won’t even approach the liftoff might of NASA’s space shuttles. But when it departs on its...