New York — Jeff Bezos wants to make space travel as dynamic and entrepreneurial as the internet. "The price of admission to space is very high," Bezos said on Saturday night in New York, accepting the Buzz Aldrin Space Exploration Award at the Explorers’ Club Annual Dinner. "I’m in the process of converting my Amazon lottery winnings into a much lower price of admission so we can go explore the solar system." Bezos previously said he would fund rocket company Blue Origin to the tune of $1bn a year through the sale of Amazon stock. His comments at the event suggest that might be only the start of his financial commitment to the project, which is developing reusable rockets. His net worth is $131bn, with $125bn of that in Amazon stock — and that "keeps on going up", his mom Jackie Bezos said during the cocktail hour. His fortune has grown more than any other on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in 2018. The Amazon CEO was not the only billionaire at the glitzy event at the Marriott Mar...
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