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In a move that pours cold water on the dreams of a few billionaire space explorers, the US has tightened its definition of the word “astronaut”.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos blasted into space on Tuesday, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, New Shepard.

Blue Origin announced Thursday that 18-year-old Oliver Daemen of the Netherlands will be joining founder Jeff Bezos on the company’s first crewed spaceflight after the winner of a $28 million auction postponed.

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has donated another $2.7bn (£1.9bn) to a range of charities.

Bids in a 10-minute auction started at $4.8m for 20 July trip on Blue Origin spacecraft with Bezos and his brother. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has sold the spare seat of the company’s 20 July New Shepard space rocket blast-off for $28m, the company announced on Saturday.

Details claiming to reveal how little income tax US billionaires pay have been leaked to a news website.

Amazon’s soon-to-be-ex-CEO Jeff Bezos announced today (June 7) that he will fly to space with his brother Mark Bezos on July 20.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is to step down as chief executive of the e-commerce giant that he started in his garage nearly 30 years ago.

The bosses of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Twitter took democracy into their own hands and silenced the U.S. president. Their coup is still advancing By Guy Rolnik The final half hour of the movie is especially action-packed and surreal. Minutes before the grand finale, as the tension peaks, National Guard battalions raid Capitol Hill. In a long shot, the …

Elon Musk has become the world’s richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).