The celebrity CEO isn’t dumb.
He will tell you that he can give a reporter an all expense paid trip somewhere for a week with an e.s.c.o.r.t./s.t.r.i.p.p.e.r. that costs the CEO $20K and he will get 30-40 stories worth 1000 times that amount over the course of a couple of years.
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BET BUZZ: Jeff Bezos Donates $100 Million To CNN Commentator Van Jones
The world’s richest man donated $100 million each to Jones and celebrity chef Jose Andres, and they are free to do “whatever they want” with the money. – Source
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says
New Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules say astronaut hopefuls must be part of the flight crew and make contributions to space flight safety.
That means Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson may not yet be astronauts in the eyes of the US government.
These are the first changes since the FAA wings programme began in 2004.
The Commercial Astronaut Wings programme updates were announced on Tuesday – the same day that Amazon’s Mr Bezos flew aboard a Blue Origin rocket to the edge of space.
To qualify as commercial astronauts, space-goers must travel 50 miles (80km) above the Earth’s surface, which both Mr Bezos and Mr Branson accomplished.
But altitude aside, the agency says would-be astronauts must have also “demonstrated activities during flight that were essential to public safety, or contributed to human space flight safety”. – Source
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