Jeff Bezos flies to San Francisco the week Blue Origin’s New Glenn explodes

Jeff Bezos flew from Van Nuys to San Francisco on June 10, a 1-hour-12-minute hop aboard his Gulfstream G700 (N11AF). The short trip, landing just after 10 a.m. local, came the same week Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket exploded during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral, destroying the 322-foot first stage and heavily damaging Launch Complex 36. [nriglobe.com](https://nriglobe.com/news/blue-origin-new-glenn-rocket-explosion-cape-canaveral-may-28-2026/)

The May 28 blast, which the FAA is investigating, grounded the entire New Glenn fleet and indefinitely postponed the NG-4 mission — a 48-satellite launch for Amazon’s Project Kuiper. [arstechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/amazon-turns-to-jeff-bezos-other-company-to-do-some-heavy-lifting/) The failure followed an upper-stage anomaly on the NG-3 flight in April that stranded an AST SpaceMobile satellite. Blue Origin has vowed to rebuild, but industry estimates from the New Space Economy suggest a 9-to-18-month return-to-flight timeline. [newspaceeconomy.ca](https://newspaceeconomy.ca/2026/05/29/bezos-fiery-nightmare-blue-origin-explosion-torpedoes-amazons-satellite-empire-nasas-moon-base-and-a-fleet-of-high-stakes-missions/)

The flight continues a pattern of rapid cross-country movements by Bezos in recent days: on June 9 he flew from Florida to Los Angeles, and on June 6 he logged two short hops near Texas. San Francisco is not a documented primary residence, but the city is home to Amazon’s growing Bay Area engineering outposts and key cloud computing offices — a natural destination for an executive chairman confronting both a grounded rocket and a satellite constellation in limbo.