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
To: KevinDavis; Brett66
2 posted on
03/12/2005 8:09:24 PM PST by
anymouse
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!)
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
To: anymouse
Winning the space race takes talented peopleAND 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
To: JenB; RosieCotton; ExGeeEye; Sam Cree; Professional Engineer; TalonDJ
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)
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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