JEFF Bezos may be the richest man who ever lived but he is not one to squander his wealth on meaningless luxuries. Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is liquidating some $1 billion a year of Amazon stock to finance his remarkable ambitions for space through his main passion: the space company, Blue Origin. It develops technologies aimed at enabling human access to space “at dramatically lower cost and increased reliability.” . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16237632.The_new_pioneers_of_space/