Jeff Bezos to Build Space Center

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Jeff Bezos to Build Space Center

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday January 13, 2005 @08:28PM from the space-cowboys dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will build a space facility in west Texas to develop a commercial suborbital spaceship. His space company, Blue Origin, is 'developing vehicles and technologies that, over time, will help enable an enduring human presence in space.'"

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This just in... by kaedemichi255 · 2005-01-13 20:30 · Score: 4, Funny

One lucky Amazon customer will win a free trip to Mars! w00t w00t!
1. Re:This just in... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-13 21:26 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  A One Way Trip To Mars.
  
  I can see it now: Survivor Mars! Last one standing gets $1m.
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Spaceship 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-13 20:34 · Score: 2, Funny

So this uh, "suborbital spaceship," has the range to make it to, I don't know... Crawford Texas? Because that would be grand, I have a pretty good idea of what the payload would be as well.
1. Re:Spaceship 1 by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-13 20:44 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I have a pretty good idea of what the payload would be as well.
  The lost Florida ballots? A clue? Antabuse?
NEW from Amazon by koi88 · 2005-01-13 20:34 · Score: 2, Funny

Book your next holiday on Mars with our patented one click shopping!

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1. Re:NEW from Amazon by docbombay · 2005-01-13 21:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Expect NASA shuttle launches from now on to take 12 hours longer in order to avoid infringing upon Amazon's new "one click launching" patent.
Let's see... by SAN1701 · 2005-01-13 20:37 · Score: 5, Funny

...if he can manage to get a patent for the "one-click launch button". There's prior art for that!
Animal testing by Daxx_61 · 2005-01-13 20:38 · Score: 2, Funny

We can launch all the chimps from Texas into space... now who do we know like that?

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two words... by Jodka · 2005-01-13 20:41 · Score: 3, Funny

"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."

Carmack Envy.

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Space mission by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-13 20:44 · Score: 3, Funny

I would like to see uncle Sam send Gates, Ballmer and Darl on a space mission to visit our nearest star, "to bravely be the first humans to put their feet on the surface of the sun".
Re:Sounds familiar... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-13 21:38 · Score: 1, Funny

Holy fuck, are you stupid. Also, any joke with stupid tags are fucking lame. You are obviously retarded, so I'll take a Whopper with cheese and onion rings, ya stupid fuck. Also, please ask your teacher in your "life skills" class to explain the basics of humor, because your fucking post isn't simply unfunny but it's fucking anti-funny. You are a shit fleck mistakenly expelled from a fart of humankind, and snf hope you accidentally fry your nuts in the deep fryer at work so you never reproduce when you rape the girl with the pretty yellow hair, you useless fuck.
I predict less than perfect success... by bobdotorg · 2005-01-13 21:39 · Score: 1, Funny

... kablamazon.com

Has a nice ring to it eh?

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Re:2 words... by kapowaz · 2005-01-13 23:59 · Score: 2, Funny

When humans get to Mars, keeping it Antarctic-pristine will be the last thing on their minds. A leaked document the Guardian has obtained from the year 2600 spells out the whole remarkable story.
Wonderful... by billyradcliffe · 2005-01-14 01:08 · Score: 2, Funny

You know, he's just doing it to patent independant space travel.