Bezos has said he wants to lower the cost of space travel.

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Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has said he founded his company in low-population Washington state so sales taxes wouldn't affect customers in bigger states.

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Bezos of course said what he said long before the smartphone and tablets like the Amazon Fire reached the marketplace.

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"But that fits into the way he does business, " Pearlman said, noting Bezos' other venture into space flight, Blue Origins, which aims to make human space flight cheaper and easier.

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