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.'"

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Patented Interface

[D-Cypell]

the billionaire talked [about] sending a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically ...With just a single click.

Private funding of space travel is more ethical

[cryfreedomlove]

I like this as an example of privately funded space exploration technology development. All of the participants in this adventure, from fund providers to astronauts, will be associated with the project on a voluntary basis. In the alternative model of publicly funded space exploration, taxpayers are coerced into funding the project and yet they do not exercise any real influence or control over the bureacracy that runs the program. The private model is based on voluntary association. The public model requires coerced association. Therefore, I conclude that the private model has a higher moral foundation.

Re:Foreign airspace (spacespace?)

[mr_mophead]

Good to hear that our hard working satellites get a week or so off. Wouldn't want them getting burnt out.