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More on what Amazon founder Bezos is up to in his commercial space project.
1 posted on 03/12/2005 8:08:14 PM PST by anymouse
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To: KevinDavis; Brett66

Commercial space ping.


2 posted on 03/12/2005 8:09:24 PM PST by anymouse
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To: anymouse
"He told me their first spacecraft is going to carry three people up to the edge of space and back," Simpson said. "But ultimately, his thing is space colonization."

I votes fer Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Bill Gates. But I'll settle for Hillary, Sheila Jackson Lee, and that dumb biotch from San Fransisco. Or Teddy and two bottles of scotch.

3 posted on 03/12/2005 8:17:37 PM PST by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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4 posted on 03/12/2005 8:22:11 PM PST by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: anymouse

The only spacing that this guy is going to do is with the drugs that he's going to get from over the nearby border. For the sake of safty a spaceport should be located by the ocean.


5 posted on 03/12/2005 8:27:10 PM PST by fella
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To: anymouse
Winning the space race takes talented people

AND the lack of a bureaucracy!


ps. Can anyone get NASA a double helping of Viagra?

6 posted on 03/12/2005 8:39:18 PM PST by Coyoteman
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A-good-way-to-spend-a-fortune ping...
7 posted on 03/12/2005 8:48:17 PM PST by Bear_in_RoseBear (Life's a game and I aim to win it, but my pocket's got a hole in it)
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To: anymouse

I wish him the best of luck. It used to be that investors with money to burn started airlines. Now they start spaceports.


9 posted on 03/13/2005 1:54:00 AM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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