Amazon's Jeff Bezos Sets His Sights on the Stars

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is reporting that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is looking to open a 'rocket-ship complex' for his new startup Blue Origin early next year. From the article: 'Blue Origin has released few details about the project. But a Texas newspaper editor who interviewed Bezos earlier this year said the billionaire talked [about] sending a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically, like a rocket, and eventually building spaceships that can orbit the Earth -- possibly leading to permanent colonies in space.'"

Comments

Re:Foreign airspace (spacespace?)

[John Hasler]

> With all of the talk lately about civilian space travel, I was
> wondering if anyone knew specifically how far national borders
> extend vertically.

100km.

> ...would an American colony be bound by law to be in a
> geosynchronous orbit over the U.S at all times?

What a wonky idea! In any case, it is not possible for anything to be in geosynchronous orbit over the US.