Blue Origin rocket explodes during test in latest setback for Jeff Bezos-owned company

On Tuesday, Nasa announced that Blue Origin had won the contract to launch the first of three planned missions this year to begin construction of its $20bn moon base...

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/29/blue-origin-rocket-explodes

 

Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement

Meanwhile, CNN reported that the Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, had also recently reached out to speak with the former president by phone. 

Those reported overtures were eviscerated by Washington Post editor-at-large and longtime columnist Robert Kagan, who resigned on Friday. On Saturday, he argued that the meeting Blue Origin executives had with Trump would not have taken place if the Post had endorsed the Democratic vice-president as it planned. 

"Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do – and then met with the Blue Origin people," Kagan told the Daily Beast on Saturday. "Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people, communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/27/bezos-washington-post-non-endorsement-election