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Blue Origin: Development Flight, and We are Hiring!

Blue Origin's "Goddard" test vehicle.
Image source: Blue Origin

After years of working behind closed doors and locked gates, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has finally lifted the curtain that shrouded Blue Origin, his space tourism venture. Among the goodies now displayed on Blue Origin's Web site are photos and videos from the venture's maiden test flight, as seen from the ground as well as a rocket-cam ... pictures from the West Texas launch range as well as Blue Origin's production facility in a Seattle suburb ... and even the Blue Origin coat of arms, emblazoned with the motto "Gradatim Ferociter" (Step by Step, Fiercely).

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.

posted by Fergie @ 1/03/2007 02:31:00 PM