Jeff Bezos — founder of e-commerce giant Amazon and space travel company Blue Origin — dropped a note to staff at his 2013 acquisition, the Washington Post,
Lauren Sánchez, who got engaged to Jeff Bezos in 2023, founded an aerial filming company that has shot footage for Amazon, Netflix, and Fox.
Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin 's suborbital New Shepard vehicle will lift off from the company's West Texas site on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time).
Rocket company Blue Origin is will lay off 10% of its workforce, CEO Dave Limp told employees Thursday. The company — which is based in Kent, Washington, and has a Phoenix office that opened in 2023 — employs 14,000 people, according to media reports, so the cuts will affect about 1,400 workers across its offices and facilities.