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...
Read the full article: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches First Suborbital Rocket
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Launches First Suborbital Rocket
Aucun commentaire:
Enregistrer un commentaire