Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, launches a rocket ship
January 5th, 2007Jeff Bezos’s company, Blue Origin, tested a rocket that takes off vertically, and then lands vertically, in the same spot. Pretty neat. Find out more from space.com at http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/070104_bezos_blueorigin_updt.html, or from Blue Origin’s website at http://public.blueorigin.com/index.html
I’m excited that alot of private ventures are trying to get into space. NASA has had a monopoly on space travel for far too long, retarding innovation.