New Technology : Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches First Suborbital Rocket

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What is it with tech billionaires and space? Something about making a pile of cash in Silicon Valley seems to inspire a pressing urge to get off the planet. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is changing the economics of orbital payloads, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has opened up space tourism to anyone with $250,000 and a dream. Now, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos wants to get in on the action. Bezos’ company is called Blue Origin, and yesterday they semi-successfully ran the first test of their flagship craft, the “New Shepard”. What is a Suborbital Rocket? The New Shepard, like Virgin Galactic’s...

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