Kent, Washington-based private aerospace company, Blue Origin has recently revealed more details about its New Shepherd manned capsule, a spacecraft it is developing under a Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) contract with the American space agency.
The company is currently developing both suborbital and orbital sp... |
5 May 2012
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Blue Origin, the private space company put together by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos more than 12 years ago, has developed a reputation for keeping its spacecraft and rocket designs secretive, but its business model has recently been unveiled. Basically, the company will rely on reusable rockets and spacecraft.
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26 April 2012
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Yesterday, December 8, a top NASA official visited the Kent, Washington-based space company Blue Origin, which the space agency supports as part of its Commercial Crew Development Program. NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver toured the facilities, and was informed of the progress made thus far.
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9 December 2011
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According to an update posted on the official Blue Origin website, the company experienced an important setback last week, when the prototype suborbital rocket it is developing for cheaper spaceflights was destroyed high above the ground. Amazon.com founder and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos said in the update that the p... |
5 September 2011
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Now that the American space agency announced that it awarded a new series of contracts, the world finally gets a chance to learn more about Blue Origin and the spacecraft it plans to build. Despite being based at the heart of the East Coast, the company is keeping its project under wraps.
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22 April 2011
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Everyone in the space industry knows that the private company Blue Origin is working on a new vertical liftoff and landing rocket, called New Shepard. However, official details of the space vehicle are being kept under wraps as work is progressing. But unofficial sources have published several of the functions and ca... |
26 February 2010
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos, of Amazon.com fame, is currently involved in constructing a new spacecraft, which is designed to be capable of routinely flying numerous astronauts to suborbital flights, at very low prices. The Bezos Blue Origin business plan is currently undergoing testings at a private launch site in Texas,... |
24 November 2009
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The veil that has been covering the activities performed by Blue Origin, the company created by Jeffrey Preston Bezos, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com, has been lifted. Underneath, it seems there was assiduous work for the development of the spacecraft called Ne... |
9 December 2008
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