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Send Your Stuff Into Space

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If you don't have the cash or the sea legs for your own space tourism flight there is another option, you can send your stuff into space. ZG Aerospace will send your things into space, give them a few brief minutes of weightlessness and bring them back safe and sound. Their nearly 20-foot tall rocket will give a ride to business cards ($49.95 each), titanium rings ($249.95) or anything you can shove into a one inch square box ($995.95). Their maiden flight is set to take off in July so get your order in now.

[via Aero-News Network]

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Jeff Bezos Has Super Secret Space Plans

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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I'd been sucked in by Richard Branson's dog-and-pony show regarding Virgin Galactic but meanwhile Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has been planning his own space lair for his aerospace company, Blue Origin. According to this AP story, Bezos recently bought a 165,000 acre ranch in West Texas that he plans to use for test launches and that will eventually be the home of his spaceport. There aren't a lot of details yet but Bezos is somewhat interested in space tourism but is aiming at building ships to orbit earth creating permanent space colonies. Blue Origin has designed a ship that will take off vertically and carry three passengers.

[via AV Web]

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Tags: amazon, blue origin, jeff bezos, JeffBezos, rocket ship, space, space tourism, spaceport