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May 2019
7m 27s

Jeff Bezos aims Blue Origin at the Moon

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Today at a packed event blocks from the White House, Jeff Bezos took the stage in front of select members of the media, executives, government officials and a gaggle of middle schoolers to reveal new details of his plan to get to the Moon by 2024. Blue Origin is going to send humans to space on New Shepard later this year and has unveiled a lunar lander, ca ... Show More
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