Blue Origin, the space tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced plans to launch a commercial space station.
Bosses said on Monday that they hope to operate the station, named "Orbital Reef," by the end of the decade. Promotional material released by the company claims the station will be a "mixed-use business park" in space and will host up to 10 people.Blue Origin said the 32,000 sq ft station would provide customers with an ideal location for "film-making in microgravity" or "conducting cutting-edge research" and said it would also include a "space hotel".
At a press conference to launch the initiative, executives from Blue Origin and Sierra Space declined to give an estimate of the building costs, though the project seems assured of heavy funding from Mr Bezos, who has committed to spending $1bn a year on Blue Origin. The announcement comes as Nasa searches for proposals to replace the 20-year-old International Space Station . While funding for the station has been guaranteed until at least 2030, humanity's dedicated outpost in space is in
Dont look up
Dude can't even get a rocket into the mesosphere lmao
As if earth didn't have problems to deal with ... !
I predict a whoopsie
Was is the point ? Such a waste of money when it could do so much good here on earth :(( All they’re gonna do is trash space.
Will he be using New Shepherd for Click & Collect only you'll have to be quick.
McDonald's, Argos and a B&M
Thanks to Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin for our pending approval to launch our GGTF Galactic Division on the Orbital Reef Space Station! We look forward to further developing our state of the art technology beyond the confines of planet Earth.
In space no can hear you avoid tax.
In Space no one can hear you evading taxes.
Tax him big time and give the money to the schools and educate America..they need it
Fuuuuuucking stop, Bozos. Please.
Cause homelessness, famine and economic equality is just not 'interesting' enough to invest in.
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Nonsense
Slowly approaching a dystopian future where you have to pay for oxygen
So Bezos seems to have given up on Earth (and the rest of us) so he can exploit space to make even more money - that he’ll never be able to spend. What a tosser...
I thought everyone was working from home so a bit pointless really 😂
Bollocks. He's barely got into space
Did the BBC report on Amazon taking new MI5 contracts? Or is that one of the many news stories the Corporation omits from the British Public