
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 Thursday 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…