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Bezos Invests About $500 Million In Blue Origin

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, July 18th, 2014

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Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has invested about $500 million and possibly more into secretive Blue Origin, the space company he founded to pursue cost-effective human access to space. Blue Origin Director of Business Development and Strategy Bretton Alexander said July 17 the $25 million the company has received as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew (CCP) human spaceflight program represents “less than five percent” of what Bezos has put into the company. Based in Kent, Wash., Blue Origin is developing technologies to…

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