Blue Origin

Bezos space company

Blue Origin is an American aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, focused on developing reusable rocket technology and commercial spaceflight.

The company operates suborbital tourism flights on its New Shepard vehicle and is developing the larger New Glenn orbital rocket.

The name reflects the company's founding vision—humanity originated on the blue planet Earth but need not remain bound to it.

spaceflight

rocket

Propulsion-driven spacecraft

capsule · propulsion · booster · reentry · suborbital · orbital · payload · trajectory · microgravity · spaceport

Bezos

Amazon

Greek warrior women

Jeff Bezos · e-commerce · AWS · Washington Post · Kindle · philanthropy · wealth · visionary · ownership · private funding

company

aerospace

Atmosphere plus outer void

contractor · NASA · partnership · manufacturing · competition · SpaceX · employees · headquarters · licensing · supply chain

motto

step by step

In ordered stages

methodical · ambition · vision · philosophy · Latin · ferociously

Opposites
private space company rivalry

Blue OriginSpaceX

Private rocket manufacturer

Starlink

space sector origin

Blue OriginNASA

Federal space exploration bureau

ESA

Family

blue, original, origin, blueprint, originality, originate, unoriginal, originally, bluish

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G