Blue Origin, is an American company that is privately funded. An aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company based in Kent, Washington.
Initially focused on suborbital spaceflight, the company has designed, built and flown multiple testbeds of its New Shepard vehicle at its facilities in Culberson County, Texas with notable successes.
Currently, Blue Origin develops orbital technology, rocket-powered vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) vehicles that would allow access to suborbital and orbital space.
When it comes to the name, it’s said that the company’s name refers to the blue planet, Earth, as the point of origin.
Currently, the company is led by Bob Smith as CEO. It also makes several attempts with its sole aims to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through the use of reusable launch vehicles.
Who built blue origin?
Blue Origin was built by Jeff Bezos who built the company to fulfil a vision of being able to offer cheap space travel and to forge the way ahead for the coming generation to explore the universe in order to make the earth a greater place to live.