An artist's concept of an O'Neill space colony. AMAZON boss Jeff Bezos says his private space travel company Blue Origin will create a moon colony for human settlers and the earth’s heavy industry within decades. There's a lot of plans to go to Mars in order to colonize the planet. ... he went into further detail about his aspirations for Blue Origin to set up a huge colony on the moon. The firm, founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, confirmed in a story this week that the Blue Moon project is moving ahead with plans to land on the moon within that timeframe, as a stepping stone toward a more ambitious settlement. SpaceX and Blue Origin are going to the moon (or therabouts) but space investors need patience . Jeff Bezos reveals Blue Origin's ambitions to set up a permanent city on the MOON. Moon fight: Blue Origin, Dynetics protest NASA’s SpaceX contract. Blue Origin The spinning cylinders are designed to replicate gravity, orbit the Earth, and give people and plants a place to live. Just this past May, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of the private space-flight company Blue Origin, revealed Blue Moon, a lunar lander to be deployed as early as 2024. Moon colony: Blue Origin is partnering with NASA to carry out the mission by 2023 (Image: GETTY) The … Blue Origin, the Amazon founder’s private space venture, unveiled its Blue Moon lunar lander at an event in Washington, D.C., this week, and said it … It has been a week of big developments in the space industry but while thematic investing is more focused than wider-market tracker funds it does not … Any single O’Neill colony would be hundreds of times larger than the ISS and presumably would cost hundreds times more to build. Jeff Bezos, we saw you standing alone, with a dream in your heart, and a moon lander of your own. But Blue Origin is not the only private rocket manufacturer chasing NASA to the moon. Blue Origin plans to establish a colony on the moon, with the first step in 2023, or sooner. A rendering of Blue Origin's moon lander design, featuring a rocket-powered descent stage and an upper crew capsule mounted on another rocket system to propel the craft back up to lunar orbit. When the US space agency chose only Elon Musk’s firm to help put astronauts on the moon …