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RE: Blue Origin, LLC

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Blue Origin, Coming to the Space Coast

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Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, launched a test flight that powered to Mach 3 speeds and reached a height of 93.6 kilometres above Earth

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Unmanned rocket lost control during a test flight

An unmanned spaceship funded by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos veered out of control and had to be destroyed during a recent test flight, highlighting the dramatic risks of private space ventures.
The spacecraft, developed by closely held Blue Origin LLC, was on a suborbital flight from the company's West Texas spaceport last week when it started to go off course and ground personnel lost normal contact with the vehicle. Investigators are looking at remnants of the craft recovered on the ground to determine the cause.
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Jeff Bezos' Spacecraft Blows Up In Secret Test Flight; Locals Describe 'Challenger-Like' Explosion

This afternoon, the Wall Street Journal got word from government officials that an unmanned rocket funded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos crashed during a test flight last week. The Journal was unable to get Bezos' notoriously secretive private space firm Blue Origin to comment on the accident.
Blue Origin's rep also declined to elaborate on the incident to Forbes. Luckily, some locals living near the remote West Texas space facility were more forthcoming.
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Blue Origin' spaceship fails during test flight

An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.
In a brief online post Friday, Bezos said "we lost the vehicle" at 45,000 feet.
Bezos founded Blue Origin to develop a vertical takeoff and landing rocketship that would fly passengers to suborbital space.
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Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos' usually secretive Blue Origin rocket venture raised the curtain today on three research experiments that are slated to take suborbital journeys on its prototype spaceship in two years' time.
For years, Blue Origin has been working on a vertical-launched rocket that could someday take passengers on an automated trip beyond 100 kilometres in altitude. That's beyond the boundary of outer space - at a height where passengers could see the blue, curving Earth beneath the blackness of space, and experience a few minutes of weightlessness.
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