Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos inspects the New Shepard launch facility in West Texas. A spot on his upcoming flight is up for auction. Photo: EPA This will be the first manned flight conducted by Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin. The flight is scheduled to take place on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. Bezos and his brother Mark, a former advertising executive and volunteer firefighter, will join the flight with the winner of the ship’s airfare auction, with the lowest bid of $2.8 million. USD. In an Instagram post, billionaire Bezos said he had dreamed of traveling into space since he was 5 years old. “I will go on that journey with my brother. The best adventure, with my best friend,” declared the Amazon founder. With an estimated personal fortune of $186.2 billion, Jeff Bezos is one of several billionaire entrepreneurs driving a “new space race,” each pumping billions of dollars into private startups. Their aim is to develop low-cost, commercialized space travel. But while Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson is expected to make a suborbital flight later this year, and SpaceX’s Elon Musk has vowed to “die on Mars,” it’s Bezos who’s the one. Win the race to be the first of this hit trio of billionaires to reach the edge of space. Watch Blue Origin successfully launch and land a reusable New Shepard space rocket (Source: CNBC) Mr Musk has yet to comment on Bezos’ latest statement, while Branson congratulated his rival, saying their two companies are “opening up to space”. “Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark for announcing their plans to go into space. Jeff started Blue Origin in 2000, we started Virgin Galactic in 2004 and now both are opening up access to space – incredible!” Branson tweeted. personal. Musk and Bezos are said to have been head-to-head on several projects over the past decade. Elon Musk sees his tech giant as an “imitation” in some of Amazon’s business ventures, while Bezos mocks the SpaceX CEO’s plans to send people to Mars. Bezos’ company Blue Origin was founded in 2000, touting itself as a means of providing cheaper access to space through the use of reusable rockets – namely the New Shepard that flew 15 times. Jeff Bezos’ space tourism project with Blue Origin is competing with a similar program being developed by Space X, the rocket company founded and run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and the company. Virgin Galactic is backed by Richard Branson. In April 2017, Bezos revealed that he invests about $1 billion in Amazon stock in Blue Origin every year. Blue Origin’s spaceship system consists of a pressurized crew capsule mounted on top of a reusable New Shepard booster. During the first manned flight into space, the crew aboard the New Shepard will spend at least 10 minutes hovering in zero gravity inside the capsule. Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000. The upcoming space flight is the culmination of more than two decades of forays into space for Jeff Bezos, who announced plans to step down as Amazon’s CEO just now. 15 days before flight date. Instead, he will become Executive Chairman of the company he founded in his garage in 1994 – allowing him “time and energy” to focus on other business ventures. Blue Origin named its space rocket program New Shepard after astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to fly into space exactly 60 years ago. The upcoming flight will mark a major milestone in the mission to take paying customers beyond space. However, for now, Elon Musk’s SpaceX seems to be leading in the space billionaire race with multiple launches of NASA equipment to the ISS and a partnership to send tourists to space by 2021. On February 6, 2018, SpaceX launched a rocket to orbit Mars, more than 220 million km from Earth, and NASA selected two astronauts to join the first manned Dragon mission performed by SpaceX. . Watch the video of SpaceX’s Starship rocket being launched and successfully landed for the first time on May 5, 2021 (Source: SpaceX): SpaceX has also begun sending a series of 60 satellites into space to help form its Starlink network. Mr. Musk hopes the program will build a network of interconnected satellites around the Earth, thereby providing free Internet to everyone around the world. Meanwhile, billionaire Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic are taking a different approach to conquering space. Virgin Galactic has repeatedly performed successful test flights of the Unity spacecraft. The first time took place in December 2018 and the last time took place on February 22 this year. More than 600 wealthy clients to date, including celebrities like Brad Pitt and Katy Perry, have booked $250,000 for one of Virgin’s spacewalks. Richard Branson introduces SpaceShipTwo, a spaceship with room for six passengers and two pilots. Photo: Reuters Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo can carry six passengers and two pilots. Each passenger has a seat with two large windows – one on the side and one above. Passengers will become “astronauts” when they reach the Karman line, the boundary of Earth’s atmosphere. The spacecraft will then make a sub-orbital journey with about six minutes of weightlessness. The whole flight took about 1.5 hours.

A mother of five, named Danielle Churchill, from southern Sydney was one of them. Struggling with raising five children, along with the hefty expenses for an autistic child, Churchill tried to apply for support through GoFundMe but was not as satisfactory. In that situation, Churchill received a text message from a person calling himself MacKenzie Scott late last year, offering to assist her every problem. According to the announcement, the ex-wife of the Amazon boss was then deciding to give away half of her fortune, and Churchill was lucky enough to be eligible to receive the money. To verify it, Churchill typed in Scott’s name and the phrase “phishing” on Google. But what she found was that billionaire Scott was actually making the move to spend money on hundreds of nonprofit groups. According to the process, to receive the money, Ms. Churchill must fill out a “membership form” from the charity claiming to be the MacKenzie Scott Foundation, then set up an online account at the Investor Bank and Trust Company. . At that time, a notice said $ 250,000 had been deposited into the account, and asked Churchill to register for a tax identification number and pay a fee to receive the money. Just like that, Churchill was subtly pickpocketed. A series of sites and organizations impersonate former billionaire Jeff Bezos’ wife to make a profit. Photo: Chris Koehler Although Churchill was cautious and actively investigated, the opponent quickly gave convincing evidence to all questions. In fact, throughout 2020, billionaire Scott claims to have charitable with nearly $ 6 billion in his fortune. Her unique dedication model is praised by many for its quickness and directness. However, this makes the female billionaire easy to be impersonated by scammers. Unbeknownst to Churchill then, there was no MacKenzie Scott Foundation. And the Investor Bank and Trust Company, once headquartered in Boston, transformed into the State Street Corporation more than a decade ago. She thought she was dealing with billionaire Scott and his team of assistants, but in reality Churchill was dealing with a sophisticated, adept group of scammers hunting for difficult subjects. In Churchill’s case, the banking channel provided, and Facebook or WhatsApp pages were fake. The use of cryptocurrency applications Bitcoin is also exploited to profit up to about 7,900 USD. This makes the victim unable to get the claim back through the bank or card company as usual. An Israeli-based email security company, Ironscales, said messages impersonating Scott’s billionaire representative were released and sent to more than 190,000 customer email accounts. The incident arose right after the ex-wife of billionaire Jeff Bezos announced the charity amount reached nearly $ 4.2 billion on December 15 last year. As for the victim, it was only after opening a bank account that did not exist did Churchill learn of the other victims. Marti DeLiema, a professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, said scam tricks via text messaging announcing charity payments are being exploited by bad actors. “Scott’s huge fundraiser has created a hole for the bad guys to take advantage of.” Even people who have actually received donations are even using their names to scam. Or the websites of the US Small Business Administration being copied, impersonating the Federal Trade Commission … Websites and facebook impersonating the billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott sprung up to seduce and deceive victims. Photo: NYtimes. In fact, billionaire Scott has donated most of his wealth to organizations, universities, food banks and frontline charities, rather than giving money to individuals. Besides, the former writer also does not have an official Facebook and Instagram social network account, apart from the Medium page and an authenticated Twitter account. And all fees to receive funding are unwarranted. Scott’s representative declined to comment on fraudulent activities on behalf of billionaire ex-wife Jeff Bezos.

It is no exaggeration to say that billionaire Jeff Bezos – the founder of e-commerce empire Amazon – owns a variety of houses suitable for all climates. His real estate block spread across the United States, from Beverly Hills (California) to Texas, even appeared in big cities like New York and Seattle (Washington state). Photo: Bloomberg. In the city New York , Mr. Bezos owns 4 luxury serviced apartments worth 17.5 million USD in The Century apartment building located near Central Park. This 33-storey twin tower was built in 1932 by Irwin Chanin – a famous architect who designed the Broadway Theater, including 410 apartments of different designs. Image: CORE. At the height of the pandemic in April 2020, the online shopping mogul “single-ended” a $ 16 million 3-bedroom apartment on the 20th floor of a 24-storey apartment building at 212 Fifth Ave. This is the 5th time Mr. Bezos has spent money to buy an apartment here. Before that, he spent $ 80 million to buy interconnected apartments and loft apartments on floors 21-24. Billionaire Bezos plans to combine all 5 floors into a single large apartment with a total area of ​​1,580 m2, the Realtor. Photo: Visualhouse. In the capital Washington Jeff Bezos spent $ 23 million in 2016 to buy the Textile Museum in the upscale Kalorama neighborhood, where the Ivanka Trump couple and the Barack Obama family once lived. He then spent an additional $ 12 million to renovate it, according to the report Washingtonian . This property is over 2,500 square meters, first built in 1914. It includes 10 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 6 dressing rooms and 11 fireplaces. Image: Blue Origin. In January 2020, the Amazon boss also bought a house larger than 445 square meters, located opposite the museum on the side of the road, for $ 5 million. The house was built in 1951 with 5 bathrooms and 2 makeup rooms, domed ceilings, carved marble fireplace, hardwood floors and 700-bottle cellar. Photo: BrightMLS. Just before a pandemic struck, Mr. Bezos bought a mansion Beverly Hills worth $ 165 million from billionaire David Geffen. The villa is more than 1,130 m2 with 8 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, 1 large dining room for 12 people; features a spa, a Koi aquarium, a European garden, a tennis court, a tree-lined cobblestone driveway, and an outdoor fireplace. Image: MLS. Before that, also in Beverly Hills, the Amazon tycoon bought a red tile-roofed 7-bedroom, 7-bathroom solar-powered residence in 2007 for $ 24.45 million. The 8,000-square-meter land has a swimming pool, 4 outdoor gardens, vegetable greenhouses, garage for up to 6 cars … In 2017, Mr. Bezos continued to buy a neighboring real estate for $ 12.9 million. According to Mansion Global, the one-storey villa is designed in a contemporary style, built in 1956 and has a width of 418 square meters, including 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, a large swimming pool in the backyard. Photo: Google Earth. The farm is about 121 square kilometers in the westernmost part state of Texas is the basis for Bezos’ private space company Blue Origin. It is estimated that this land is worth about 50 million USD. There is also a four-bedroom house that Mr. Bezos bought from lawyer Ronald Stasny in 2004. It was built in the 20s of the last century, with deer velvet chandeliers, oak furniture, paintings. Historical photos and a warehouse, according to Wall Street Journal. Image: Blue Origin. One of the first homes Mr. Bezos bought after Amazon was so successful was in Medina, a suburb the city of Seattle (Washington state). The e-commerce mogul bought a 1,900-square-meter villa for $ 10 million in 1998, consisting of 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Image: The Seattle Times. In 2005, Jeff Bezos is said to have spent $ 50 million on a 771 square meter mansion in the vicinity, which includes 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. The property includes a 94-meter coastline, according to Realtor. In 2010, the billionaire spent an additional $ 28 million to renovate both properties above. Photo: SPIEGEL.

How rich is Bezos? Just two months after spending $ 34 billion as a divorce agreement with his ex-wife, he “aggressively” swung $ 80 million for three apartments located on three consecutive floors in an apartment building in New York.

After that, he continued to spend $ 16 million in exchange for the 4th floor for his apartment on 5th Avenue, with about 15 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, a cinema room, a game room, a room. exercise and even a golf course.

In addition, Bezos also spent $ 7.6 million to own 3 luxury apartments in a building across from Central Park. In February 2020, he was shocked when he bought the “terrible” mansion of entertainment tycoon David Geffen in Beverly Hills, California for $ 165 million. The real estate has an area of ​​more than 1,250 m², a spacious garden, with 8 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, tennis court, swimming pool and a 9-hole golf course.

In 2007, he spent $ 24 million on a Spanish-style mansion with 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms and a garage that can hold 6 cars. Ten years later, the owner of Amazon bought another 424-square-meter house right next door for $ 13 million.

The world’s top billionaire also spent $ 23 million to buy textile museums in Washington DC. He continued to buy the house next door to turn the museum into a residence of 2508 square meters, also the largest house in the city.

When Bezos arrived in Seattle, he could choose to live on one of the two riverside properties in Medina, Washington. There, he spent $ 10 million on a five-bedroom and four-bathroom house on Lake Washington. His mansion nearby costs $ 53 million.

His largest property is believed to be a 37,161 m² corn farm in Van Horn, Texas. This place is being used as the headquarters for Blue Origin.