Spaceport planned by Amazon.com founder
Saturday, 15 Mar, 2005
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has high flying plans for a little Texas town.
He wants to use the 165,000 acres he has bought near Van Horn to build a spaceport.
“He told me their first spacecraft is going to carry three people up to the edge of space and back. But ultimately, his thing is space colonization,” reported Larry Simpson in the Van Horn Advocate, the small western town’s weekly newspaper.
Mr Bezos said the goal of the venture known as Blue Origin was to send a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically, similar to a rocket.
Flight tests still are several years off, according to the Associated Press. No dollar amounts were reported for the project.
Report by David Wilkening
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