"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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The van was photographed by a member of the public after it had been left in a space reserved for blue badge holders.
The most famous edit in that film is when the apes throw bone up into the air and then there's a cut - and that is a spaceship floating beautifully through space to the Blue Danube music.
Baroness Grey-Thompson said at her local supermarket she could not get from a blue badge parking space to the doors - 20m is not that far, she said.
The walls of the East Landing are adorned with wreaths crafted with red, white, and blue yarn, and a tree decorated with red, white and blue ornaments completes the space.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has always been incredibly secretive about his own space investment, a company called Blue Origin based near Seattle but with a rocket launch facility out in the wilds of west Texas.
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Its mirror-finish black steel skin reflects every passing cloud, giving the building a mysterious totemlike quality, while inside unfinished ceilings are painted deep blue and almost every space can be used flexibly, whether for exhibiting, performances or local events.
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The Hubble Space Telescope recently spied a cluster of young blue stars surrounding a rare mid-weight black hole that suggests the black hole was once at the center of a dwarf galaxy.
Virgin's Richard Branson has started Virgin Galactic in an attempt to sell suborbital trips to ordinary citizens, and Amazon.com 's JeffBezosJeff Bezos has started a company called Blue Origin to create a private suborbital space vehicle.
Vampire women, Aztec mummies and diabolical brains from outer space were no match for El Santo and his colleagues Blue Demon and Mil Mascaras.
Obama's swearing-in on Sunday took place in the ornate Blue Room, an oval-shaped reception space in the president's official residence, where he was joined by his wife, Michelle, and his two daughters.
Still, he remembers one space offering a welcome caesura from the ormolu and swag: the Blue Room, which the Count used as his personal sitting area.
Mr Heatherwick's future projects include the world's first all-glass bridge, and a public square in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, which will take the dramatic and humorous appearance of a gigantic, electric-blue carpet landing, as it were, from outer space.
And they will not be able to receive surprise presents, like special cookies or favorite movies, which are often brought to the space station on supply shuttles when someone starts feeling homesick or maybe a little blue.
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Blue Origin is one of several start-ups aiming to open up space travel to paying customers.
Blue Origin has received millions of dollars in NASA funding to develop its commercial space travel program, including a launch escape system.
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The Blue side also had a National Missile Defense system, as well as reusable space planes that could be launched to quickly place new satellites in orbit or repair and refuel ones already there.
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They walked past thin columns of water at the entrance into an open space, where various objets--an oversize ceramic head and an eye-catching blue glass vessel, for example--sat among high-tech showers, whirlpools, sinks and an oval-shaped toilet, all displayed on pedestals like museum pieces, the better to bring in customers.
His spaceship company, Blue Origin, is working on a vehicle that would transport astronauts to the international space station.
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Played by Matt Smith, he journeys through "Time And Relative Dimension In Space" in his aptly-named ship, the TARDIS -- which looks like a blue British police call box on the outside, and is as iconographic a vehicle as the U.S.S. Enterprise, Millennium Falcon or DeLorean.
The bridges and main plates are crafted in blue sapphire, allowing the flying Tourbillon to appear as if it is floating in an empty space.
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Conceived as a capsule for the imaginary voyage of moviegoing, the theater has a wraparound ceiling and walls made of 1, 136 fabric panels in a sensuous, vibrant Yves Klein blue, altering the viewer's depth perception and encouraging a sensation of being suspended in the space.
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