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Where did the phrase 'once in a blue moon' come from? A folklorist traces the convoluted evolution of the phrase, while discussing why it adopted the many meanings it has throughout history.
by Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor | January 18, 2013 05:44pm ET. Jeff Bezos is an Internet entrepreneur who is also the founder of Blue Origin, a somewhat secretive space company that is working on a suborbital crew capsule.Blue Origin is conducting tests under NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), which is intended to bring new private American crewed vehicles into space.n 2000 â shortly after Bezos was named Time's Person of the Year for his work on the Internet â Bezos turned his attention to space. He quietly founded a company called Blue Origin, which would develop a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing rocket ship that could pop passengers into suborbital space.