Amazon's Bezos in Private Space Race

According to a Reuters article, engineers at Blue Origin, a Seattle start-up funded by Jeff Bezos, "are working to build low-cost vehicles that would send passengers into space for short flights."

Amazon.com Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, wants to compete against the likes of Scaled Composite's Burt Rutan and his SpaceShipOne success, along with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, in the privately-funded suborbital space tourism industry.

Regarding suborbital space tourism, akin to the technology of SpaceShipOne, Bezos stated, "I very much hope to go up one day, and I think that will happen. I think I will go up on a Blue Origin vehicle."

And Bezos isn't suborbitally-limited. "Then you would proceed from there to other steps, such as perhaps orbital space flights," Bezos told Reuters on Tuesday.

Perhaps America's Space Prize isn't so unrealistic?

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