"There is also a fair amount of backlash to the flights, and the industry more broadly, about the enormous costs of these flights," Christian Davenport, author of " The Space Barons" and space reporter for The Washington Post, told. But the fact that it was a crewed launch (with a crew that included Bezos himself), and its temporal proximity to Virgin Galactic's crewed suborbital launch with its founder Richard Branson just over a week beforehand, shone a brighter light on the company. The July flight certainly didn't mark the first time that Blue Origin got major media attention. It was its first trip to space with passengers, a milestone that signified a step toward a future with regular launches of crews of paying customers, including space tourists.īut this milestone, which put Blue Origin into the spotlight, also seems to have been a turning point for how the public views Bezos' company.
Since Bezos founded the company in 2000, Blue Origin and its hardworking engineers and employees have been making progress with the company's many space technologies, including its New Shepard vehicle that lofted a crew of four passengers to space and back this July, and its upcoming New Glenn orbital vehicle.īlue Origin's latest launch, which carried Bezos along with his brother Mark, 18-year-old Dutch student Oliver Daemen and pioneering aviator Wally Funk to and from suborbital space aboard New Shepard, was a turning point for the company. However, amidst a booming space sector, one company has drawn a majority of the ire - Blue Origin. Over the past few months, commercial spaceflight has launched into overdrive as companies like Axiom planned crewed missions to the International Space Station, SpaceX won NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) contract to build a moon lander and Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic successfully completed crewed suborbital flights with the companies' respective billionaire founders on board. So why does Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin seem to be in the hot seat?ĭespite a summer of success, recent competition and some controversial tweets - including some misleading infographics - have left many who follow the space industry feeling less than supportive of Jeff Bezos and his space company. They work in government, academia and every facet of the aerospace industry.These days, it feels as though billionaire-backed space companies are launching off Earth all the time. Yes, five Michigan aerospace alumni have walked on the moon, but you can find our graduates all over the earth as well. A degree in aerospace prepares students for a variety of positions and career growth opportunities in the aerospace industry, as well as government agencies such as NASA. They also use their technical skills to develop successful careers as entrepreneurs, new technology managers, policy managers, and educators. We combine advanced technologies and cutting-edge materials to design smaller, lighter, more efficient aircraft and spacecraft and find innovative ways to power and control them.Īerospace engineers conceive, design, manufacture, test, and operate aircrafts, spacecrafts, satellites, missiles, propulsion engines systems and their components.
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