When it comes to space flight in usually right on top of current events. there was a test launch from a private spaceport in west texas on monday and im just now reading about it. The founder of Amazon.com (Jeff Bezos) is funding a private spaceport in my state!

According to documents Blue Origin submitted to the FAA earlier this year, its New Shepard Resuable Launch Vehicle would be cone-shaped, about 50 feet tall and 22 feet in diameter at the base. It would consist of two stacked modules, one to provide propulsion, the other a crew capsule “capable of carrying three or more space flight participants,” according to the report to the agency.

Blue Origin said there could be as many as 10 suborbital tests this year. As many as 52 commercial flights, the goal of the project, could begin in 2010.

November 14th, 2006
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