Jeff Bezos

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• SOURCE: Inverse
  12/5/2021
  

  Amy Shira Teitel: Why is Space Such a Boys' Club?

  "Space skews predominantly male, especially Apollo-era space history because that was the era when little boys growing up were being told, 'You can be an astronaut, too'!"

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• 11/21/2021
  

  Adulation for Today's Space Race is Misplaced. So is Nostalgia for the First One

  by Catherine Devlin

  It is impossible not to compare today’s billionaire space race to the iconic celestial competition of the 1960’s. But what if neither is worthy of adulation?

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• 8/1/2021
  

  Ike Would Like the New Private Space Race

  by Yanek Mieczkowski

  Wary of government spending and the entanglement of public money with private contractors, Dwight Eisenhower would find much to like in today's billionaire space race. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  7/20/2021
  

  The U.S. Tax Code Should Not Allow Billionaires to Exist

  by Josh Mound

  There have been historical precursors to the recent ProPublica report on the extremely low taxes paid by the ultrawealthy. Will this revelation lead to more lasting changes in the tax code that thwart the hoarding of wealth? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/9/2021
  

  How Will Jeff Bezos Spend His Billions Now?

  by Margaret O'Mara

  John D. Rockefeller used philanthropy to blunt harsh criticism of his business practices and the social dysfunction represented by his immense wealth. What will his 21st-century analogue Jeff Bezos do for an image-burnishing second act? And will it be about service to the public or service to Bezos? 

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• SOURCE: Town and Country
  2/8/19
  

  Before Jeff Bezos, Alexander Hamilton Outsmarted His Blackmailers with the Reynolds Pamphlet

  In 1797, he published scandalous details about his own affair.

• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  7-19-13
  

  Amazon’s Bezos Confirms Recovery Of Apollo 11 Engine From Ocean Floor

  Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced in March that his research team, Bezos Expeditions, successfully recovered some of the remains of the F-1 engines that powered the Saturn V rocket, the workhorse of the Apollo lunar missions in the 1960s and 1970s.While the find was extraordinary, it wasn't immediately clear which Apollo missions the engines fueled. On Friday, however, Bezos confirmed that his team had indeed found an engine that propelled the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon."Today, I’m thrilled to share some exciting news," Bezos wrote on his blog. "One of the conservators who was scanning the objects with a black light and a special lens filter has made a breakthrough discovery – “2044” – stenciled in black paint on the side of one of the massive thrust chambers. 2044 is the Rocketdyne serial number that correlates to NASA number 6044, which is the serial number for F-1 Engine #5 from Apollo 11. The intrepid conservator kept digging for more evidence, and after removing more corrosion at the base of the same thrust chamber, he found it – "Unit No 2044" – stamped into the metal surface."...