Blue Origin, SpaceX attempted important launch missions on Thursday and witnessed their respective founders develop a cordial relationship.
Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos was set to celebrate his 61st birthday in grand fashion with the heavy-lift orbital launch of the New Glenn rocket on
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to an official involved with the planning of the event.
They will be sitting on the dais during the swearing-in as Silicon Valley leaders aim to make inroads with Trump, who attacked Big Tech during his first presidency.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos high-fived with friendly tweets after SpaceX and Blue Origin launched rockets on Thursday.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin have clashed over several opportunities in the past. While Blue Origin successfully launched its New Glenn rocket on Thursday, becoming the company’s first rocket capable of reaching orbit, SpaceX’s prototype failed in space minutes after launching from Texas.
Jeff Bezos, the second richest man in the world, successfully blasted off a 320-foot-tall rocket ship made by his Blue Origin company from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the early hours of the morning. It made the company the first to successfully reach orbit on its first launch of an orbital-class rocket.
The two tech titans, known to be at loggerheads, seem to be warming up to each other thanks to their rocketry journey with SpaceX and Blue Origin.
After years of delays, the billionaire’s Blue Origin space company launched its New Glenn rocket early Thursday.
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