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03-09-2016, 08:24 PM
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin may start crewed test flights of its spaceship by 2017
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KENT, Wash. — Private space travel company Blue Origin (http://mashable.com/2016/01/22/blue-origin-rocket-landing-video/) expects its first test flights with people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said during a tour of the venture's research and development site outside Seattle.
And Bezos said Tuesday that thousands of people have expressed interest in eventually paying for a trip on a suborbital craft.
SEE ALSO: Bezos' Blue Origin shows what it looks like to land a rocket back on Earth (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/blue-origin-rocket-landing-vine/)
For **w, the man who founded Amazon.com is spending some of the billions earned from the Seattle-based online retailer on high tech equipment and about 600 employees working in a former Boeing airplane parts facility. Bezos said he's convinced the company — a vision of his childhood dreams — will eventually be profitable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-commercial-flights/)
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KENT, Wash. — Private space travel company Blue Origin (http://mashable.com/2016/01/22/blue-origin-rocket-landing-video/) expects its first test flights with people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said during a tour of the venture's research and development site outside Seattle.
And Bezos said Tuesday that thousands of people have expressed interest in eventually paying for a trip on a suborbital craft.
SEE ALSO: Bezos' Blue Origin shows what it looks like to land a rocket back on Earth (http://mashable.com/2016/02/05/blue-origin-rocket-landing-vine/)
For **w, the man who founded Amazon.com is spending some of the billions earned from the Seattle-based online retailer on high tech equipment and about 600 employees working in a former Boeing airplane parts facility. Bezos said he's convinced the company — a vision of his childhood dreams — will eventually be profitable. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/09/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-commercial-flights/)
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