« 200 calories | Main | Doctorow: "The American lifestyle frankly sucks." » Blue Origin wants engineersJeff Bezos' private space company, Blue Origin, has revised its web site with pictures and videos from a test launch of its New Shepard Program's Goddard spacecraft, "a vertical take-off, vertical-landing vehicle designed to take a small number of astronauts on a sub-orbital journey into space." The home page of the site also has a call for "hard working, technically gifted, team-oriented, experienced" aerospace engineers. There's a backgrounder about Blue Origin at MSNBC's Cosmic Log: Bezos founded Blue Origin in 2000, with the aim of developing a new type of vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing rocket ship capable of taking passengers to the edge of space. At altitudes in excess of 62 miles (100 kilometers), customers should be able to scan Earth's curving expanse beneath a black sky, experience a few minutes of weightlessness and justifiably brag afterward that they've been to outer space. Blue Origin's current development schedule calls for commercial trips to start in 2010. jon posted this at 9:07 AM |
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