Days before Jeff Bezos plans to blast off to space on a vessel designed by his rocket company Blue Origin, the Amazon billionaire has pledged to donate $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution to promote space education here on earth. The astronaut-to-be is donating $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution. And a Blue Origin rocket on display isn’t out of the question: “The aerospace team is always collecting.”Will a Blue Origin rocket hang in the Air & Space Museum one day? Fellow billionaire Richard Branson successfully voyaged to space on Sunday aboard a rocket built by his own Blue Origin competitor, Virgin Galactic. Bezos’ philanthropist ex-wife Mackenzie Scott (the world’s 22nd richest person, worth an estimated $62.2 billion) is also a museum supporter.

Source: Forbes July 14, 2021 20:03 UTC