Saturday, January 06, 2007

Amazon boss shows off spacecraft





The billionaire founder of Amazon.com has released the first images of the launch of a private spacecraft that could bring space travel to the masses.

A video of the cone-shaped Goddard vehicle shows it climbing to about 85m (285ft) before returning back to Earth.

The test launch took place in November 2006 in a remote part of Texas, but details have only now been released.

The images mark the first time Jeff Bezos has broken his silence on the work of his space company, Blue Origin.

2 comments:

Mac said...

One giant leap for mankind.

I hope so!

Anonymous said...

By "masses" I assume they mean mulit, multi-millionaires who will be able to afford it.

Paul