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A parachute failed to deploy during Jeff Bezos’ space tourism return mission

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Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has launched an investigation after an incident during its first crewed flight in two years in which one of the parachutes on the New Shepard capsule failed to fully inflate. William Shatner for Jeff Bezos to the company The new Shepard rocket was launched on … Read more

Japanese billionaire pulls the plug on private lunar mission “DearMoon” Starship

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The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing continued uncertainty about when the launch vehicle will be ready to fly. “I signed the contract in 2018 based on the assumption that dearMoon would be launched by the end of 2023,” … Read more