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06.04.2022 / 21:19

Forbes billionaires 2022: See who made this year’s list of the world’s richest people

FILE-Elon Musk attends TIME Person of the Year on December 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for TIME) WASHINGTON - A list featuring the top earners in the world has been released by Forbes. Forbes comprised a list of more than 2,000 billionaires worldwide and found over 1,000 billionaires who added to their massive fortunes this year compared to 2021.

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These billionaires are worth more than the US Treasury has in cash, report says

Bernard Arnault, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos are pictured in file images. (Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP, Taylor Hill, Samir Hussein/WireImage via Getty Images) As U.S.

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Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA contract to build lunar landers for moonwalkers

FILE - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post via Getty Images, introduces their newly developed lunar lander "Blue Moon" and gives an update on Blue Origin and the progress and vision of going to space to benefit CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Jeff Bezos' rocket company has won a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, two years after it lost out to SpaceX.Blue Origin received a $3.4 billion contract Friday to lead a team to develop a lunar lander named Blue Moon. It will be used to transport astronauts to the lunar surface as early as 2029, following a pair of crew landings by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.NASA will get astronauts to lunar orbit using its own rockets and capsules, but wants private companies to take over from there.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the agency wants different landing options as it seeks a return to the moon more than a half-century after the end of the Apollo moonshots.Blue Origin is kicking in billions of dollars, on top of the NASA contract, to help establish a permanent presence on the moon."We have a lot to do before we successfully land and return astronauts," said John Couluris, a Blue Origin vice president.Two years ago, Blue Origin sued after NASA awarded SpaceX the contract for the first lunar landing.

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Blue Origin capsule blasts away from failing rocket during dramatic in-flight abort

VAN HORN, Texas - Space tourism company Blue Origin had an unexpected test of its rocket’s in-flight abort system during a Monday morning launch, though no people were onboard at the time.The New Shepherd rocket blasted off from west Texas just before 9:30 a.m., carrying a capsule full of experiments on what was supposed to be a 10-minute ride to the edge of space and back. But one minute into the flight, something automatically triggered the emergency in-flight abort system and the capsule fired its escape engine, pulling clear of the booster rocket at about 30,000 feet.Video footage from Blue Origin’s live webcast showed the capsule pull away and drift through the air before safely deploying its parachutes and landing safely in the desert.The moment of failure.

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Watch Blue Origin launch live: Company's 4th suborbital human flight to lift off

VAN HORN, Texas - Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is set to launch its fourth human flight for the New Shepard program on Thursday, sending six passengers to the edge of space."Saturday Night Live" star Pete Davidson had initially been among the passengers slated to take flight. But the comedian abruptly dropped out of the mission after it was rescheduled and Davidson was replaced by Gary Lai, one of the first 20 Blue Origin employees.The five other passengers, who are paying customers, were identified as Party America CEO Marty Allen, philanthropist and Tricor International CEO Marc Hagle and his wife, Sharon Hagle, who founded the nonprofit SpaceKids Global, teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen and Commercial Space Technologies President Dr.

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Pete Davidson no longer going to space on Blue Origin flight, company says

FILE IMAGES - (L) Pete Davidson attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sept. 13, 2021, in New York City.

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MacKenzie Scott donates $20M to Charles R. Drew University in South LA

LOS ANGELES - Novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $20 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, it was announced Tuesday.Charles R. Drew University is making a big difference for the underserved in South Los Angeles.The one-time gift represents the largest private donation in the history of the university, which was founded in 1966 in the wake of the Watts riots to address inequities in health care.

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4 hurt in shooting after Justin Bieber concert at Los Angeles restaurant

According to TMZ, rapper Kodak Black was among those who were shot. The gunfire erupted outside The Nice Guy restaurant, hitting four men ages 60, 19, 20 and 22, LAPD Officer Lizeth Lomeli said. Their names were not released.When officers arrived on the scene, they located three people who had been shot.

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