Blue Origin to build launch facility in west Texas

apollo18 · #1 (**permalink**) 13-January-2005, 11:28 PM

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6822763/

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After years of work behind closed doors, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has gone public with a plan to build a suborbital space facility on a sprawling ranch under the wide open skies of West Texas.

Bezos' Seattle-based Blue Origin suborbital space venture is starting the process to build an aerospace testing and operations center on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000-acre spread that the 41-year-old billionaire purchased north of Van Horn, Texas. Over the next six or seven years, the team would use the facility to test components for a craft that could take off and land vertically, carrying three or more riders to the edge of space.

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Swift · #2 (**permalink**) 13-June-2005, 08:33 PM

CNN posted a space.com story on their website
cnn.com

Quote:

Details of a new passenger-carrying rocket are emerging from Blue Origin, the Seattle-based company spearheaded by Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com. The first test flight of the rocket in unpiloted mode is slated for late next year.

On the group's Web site, they have posted an update on their reusable launch vehicle (RLV) work.

Here is their website and I can't find any details. :-?

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