Thursday, January 04, 2007

Bezos unleashes space rocket prototype


From Cnet:
After years of secrecy surrounding his space exploration venture (Blue Origin), Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is pumping up his aspirations with a first-generation suborbital space rocket and an open plea to hire aerospace engineers.
Videos:

Here is a video of the launch. Maximum altitude on this first development flight was about 285 feet.

This on-board video shows a landing gear and a thruster. You can see small movements of the thruster as it vectors to control the vehicle

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