Jeff Bezos Building Rockets Now?

November 22nd, 2007

Man…I thought the G had too much power…lol

Anyways, Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos is bankrolling Blue Origin, a rocket development company with engineering and manufacturing teams housed in a 280,000 square foot facility on 26 acres in Kent, Washington.

So i guess you really can get ANYTHING at Amazon. Get some discount home theater seating, some video games, and maybe a rocket later?

“We are now working on a second development vehicle,” Bezos said. “There will be at least one more development vehicle after that…at least, I don’t know, maybe it’ll be more.”

“We’re not in any hurry…because we’re trying to build a very safe, well-engineered vehicle. [I] don’t see any reason to rush on this,” Bezos told Rose.

“People have done studies that have tried to size this market. But I’m highly skeptical of such studies because you don’t really know until you do it,” Bezos explained. “But I do think this can be made into a viable business. You have to be very long-term oriented,” he said.

Read more about this on the LiveScience Blog.