- Jeff Bezos mentioned he goals to create space journey inexpensive via Blue Origin.
- Bezos desires to decrease prices to allow innovation, likening it to web development that led to Amazon.
Jeff Bezos mentioned on a Blue Origin tour that he desires the corporate to create space journey so low-cost that “two youngsters in a dorm” could make the following house mega-company.
YouTuber Tim Dodd, identified by his channel title “Everyday Astronaut,” posted a video of the second a part of his tour of the Blue Origin manufacturing facility and Glenn launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday. Dodd interviewed Bezos whereas he gave a tour of the huge facility Blue Origin will use to launch its rockets into house.
(Bezos even pointed to the launch space that competitor SpaceX makes use of to launch its Falcon Heavy, the world’s strongest operational rocket.)
Bezos mentioned within the interview that he desires Blue Origin to create space journey so low-cost that we are able to fly to the moon “100 instances cheaper.”
“Space journey is a solved drawback. It’s been solved for 50 years. What’s unsolved is the associated fee,” Bezos mentioned within the video.
Solving the issue of low-cost and straightforward house journey is “what is going to actually open the heavens to humanity” and make attainable the “entrepreneurial dynamism in house that I simply obtained to witness up shut and private during the last 20 years on the web,” Bezos mentioned.
“If the minimal dimension to do any helpful experiment is many, many hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, you then simply cannot get, you recognize, two youngsters in a dorm room making the following superb invention,” he added. “The barrier of entry is just too excessive.”
It’s been greater than three years since Bezos stepped down from his publish as CEO of Amazon, which he famously based in his storage in 1994. When he stepped down, Bezos mentioned he deliberate to spend extra time on his two different endeavors, Blue Origin and The Washington Post.
Bezos mentioned through the Blue Origin tour that the “main cause” he left his position as CEO of Amazon was to give attention to Blue Origin.
“I’m nonetheless very concerned in Amazon, totally on the AI aspect, however Blue is admittedly the place I’m placing the overwhelming majority of my productive efforts, and I’m working more durable than I ever have actually,” Bezos mentioned within the video.
