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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!
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!
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".