How Jeff Bezos and Other Billionaires Are Transforming Space Travel

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos isn't the only billionaire who wants to put his stamp on spaceflight. Bezos announced Tuesday (Sept. 15) that Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company he established in 2000, will manufacture and launch a fleet of reusable vehicles from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, with the first flights scheduled to begin by the end of the decade. Blue Origin is developing reusable rockets and spacecraft to launch astronauts to both suborbital and orbital