Astronomy / Space Special Delivery: Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Send Spaceship to the Moon

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Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos says he’s going to send a spaceship to the Moon, joining a resurgence of lunar interest half a century after people first set foot there.

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, founder of rocket company Blue Origin, unveiled on Thursday (May 9) a mockup of a lunar lander spacecraft and discussed missions to the moon in a strategy tailored to the U.S. government's renewed push to establis

Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, aims to take people to the Moon by 2024.

Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, aims to take people to the Moon by 2024.
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Amazon’s Bezos to send spaceship to the Moon

Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, aims to take people to the Moon by 2024.
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Here's Everything Jeff Bezos Said To Convince Humanity That Space Colonies Are The Future
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man on the planet, gave an hour-long presentation yesterday about his plans for humanity’s future living on the Moon and in space colonies. It was a bit like watching a monologue from a sci-fi movie in a lot of ways. And now you can finally view the entire presentation online for yourself.
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Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
I am very encouraged by this new wave of private spaceflight initiatives.
If space travel technology is now cheap enough and developed enough for the private sector to pick up the mantle
then we are on the cusp of a golden age in space advancement.

Maybe i will get to retire to the moon one day and enjoy the benefits of 16.6% gravity in my old age.
 

Roybe

Roybe
Not sure if space travel is cheaper...but there are a lot more people that have the wealth of a country.....
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Roybe said:
Not sure if space travel is cheaper...but there are a lot more people that have the wealth of a country.....
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The Apollo program cost in adjusted dollars $112 billion. So much technology needed to be literally invented from scratch for that program to succeed.

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Blue Origin Reveals Some Cost Numbers
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2017/04/blue-origin-rev.html
https://www.geekwire.com/2017/jeff-bezos-amazon-blue-origin/

"Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos has long said that he's using his personal fortune to fund his Blue Origin space venture, and today he hinted at just how many billions of dollars he intends to spend. "My business model right now for Blue Origin is, I sell about $1 billion a year of Amazon stock, and I use it to invest in Blue Origin," he told reporters here at the 33rd Space Symposium. "So the business model for Blue Origin is very robust." Bezos threw out the figure half-jokingly, after noting that he typically doesn't reveal how much he's spending. But he made clear that his in-house space effort, headquartered in Kent, Wash., takes a noticeable chunk out of his estimated $78 billion fortune. He said the development cost for Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital launch system, which should be taking off from a Florida launch facility by 2020 or so, is likely to be on the order of $2.5 billion."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Origin

the company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability
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Plans for New Shepard were initially kept quiet, but Blue Origin's website indicated Bezos' desire to, "lower the cost of spaceflight so that ... we humans can better continue exploring the solar system."
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Manticore

Manticore
Vasco Sapien said:
I am very encouraged by this new wave of private spaceflight initiatives.
If space travel technology is now cheap enough and developed enough for the private sector to pick up the mantle
then we are on the cusp of a golden age in space advancement.

Maybe i will get to retire to the moon one day and enjoy the benefits of 16.6% gravity in my old age.
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Word!
 

lysan

lysan
Vasco Sapien said:
I am very encouraged by this new wave of private spaceflight initiatives.
If space travel technology is now cheap enough and developed enough for the private sector to pick up the mantle
then we are on the cusp of a golden age in space advancement.

Maybe i will get to retire to the moon one day and enjoy the benefits of 16.6% gravity in my old age.
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The moon or mars will not be for peasants, we can stay here, only the elite will go to these places unless you are employed by them. And the earth will still be the best place to be in this system anyway.
 

Felix DiCestria

Felix DiCestria
lysan said:
The moon or mars will not be for peasants, we can stay here, only the elite will go to these places unless you are employed by them. And the earth will still be the best place to be in this system anyway.
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I suspect the Moon will become the breadbasket of the Solar System, potentially using ice mined from the asteroids for crops to feed the interplanetary population.
Mars would present much the same barrier as Earth requiring significant thrust to attain escape velocity.
As for who goes, I suspect the elite will remain here, it'll be the middle management, estate agents and civil servants that find themselves sent to Mars...
 

Phongsalt

Phongsalt
I disagree.Far more likely the upper echelons will remain here.Its the proles who will get sent to dig up mars. Can't see anyone with the moolah to buy themselves out and remain here with the good stuff passing up on the chance to ship out all the 'undesirables'.
 
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