amazon.com owner, owns a rocket company

[MTS]

Apparently fightclub's little foreshadowing of planets being named after big name companys maybe true someday.

Amazon.com’s founder Jeff Bezos has a rocket company on the side called Blue Origin. But that’s pretty much all we knew.

Well, now we know more. The Blue Origin website has been updated with photos and videos of the new Goddard rocket, which blasted off on November 13, 2006 from the West Texas launch facility. For its maiden voyage, the rocket launched vertically, reached an altitude of 87 metres (285 feet), and then landed back down vertically on the launch pad.

Goddard looks like just the nose cone from a much larger rocket, and it will eventually carry paying passengers to the edge of space - an altitude of 100 km (62 miles).

 

[jeepboi]

I dont plan on being any where near a rocket. Especially one thats gonna fly my ass into spaceish. I personally dont mind the 4 hour flight to LA from Texas.

 

[plifter]

I work for the dork. He spends billions on a toy spaceship but I haven't had a raise in 3 years because I'm already making the max allowed for my position. I want a union.