Sean Kelly
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Amazon CEO gives us peek into space plans
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... Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos bought 165,000 acres of land near the tiny West Texas town last year and started dropping in regularly in his private jet.
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... he intends to build a rocket-testing range — and possibly a spaceport — on the high desert north of town.
The plans are part of Bezos' secretive Blue Origin operation, headquartered in a warehouse on East Marginal Way in Seattle. The company has no listed phone number, and Bezos and his spokespeople have steadfastly declined to reveal many details.
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The company's first project will be a reusable spaceship to carry three people or more to the edge of space and safely back to Earth, said Bruce Hicks, a Blue Origin spokesman. |
Gee, sounds an awful lot like an X-Prize competitor which he already admitted to wanting to do when Space Ship One and Virgin Galactic were headline news. Seems like he's trying to out-maneuver the leading groups by using his figurehead status and hush-hush approach to increase the intrigue amongst journalists.
Smile; It confuses people.  |
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01-17-2005 09:47 PM
