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Jeff Bezos wants a low-orbit office park to replace the ISS

Vox

Blue Origin thinks all kinds of companies will want some space in space. The billionaire’s spaceflight company, Blue Origin, has released its proposal for a new, commercial space station called Orbital Reef. Blue Origin wants to build a commercial space station that NASA astronauts could eventually visit. Courtesy of NASA.

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Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin promise details coming next week for how to buy first seat on spaceflight

GeekWire

Blue Origin employees are expected to go on the first crewed flights, but eventually the company will take on passengers paying a six-figure ticket price. Blue Origin builds the hardware for the suborbital New Shepard program at its headquarters in Kent, Wash.

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

GeekWire

If the program goes as hoped, Blue Origin could start flying people later this year. About a minute after launch, the craft was programmed to rotate at the rate of one complete turn every two to three minutes. The company isn’t yet taking reservations for passenger flights, and it hasn’t yet set the ticket price for New Shepard trips.

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Is AI technology the future of travel?

Dataconomy

Travel industry players are excited about predictions that AI could add around $1 trillion extra to the global tourism industry by 2025. Marketing companies are also babbling excitedly about AI’s ability to create hyper-personalized trips for travelers. Before the AI can tailor a program, it must learn everything about you.

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Blue Origin’s team wins $130M share of NASA funds for commercial space stations

GeekWire

The project is envisioned as an expandable business park, with Boeing’s Starliner space taxi and Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser space plane transporting passengers to and from low Earth orbit for tourism, research, in-space manufacturing projects and more.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

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With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Botsman is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum.

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