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    An environmental assessment of the Texas site provides the best glimpse yet into Blue Origin's plans for public space travel.




    Blue Origins ship to be based on the Boeing "Delta Clipper" (DC-XA)



    The Blue Origin rocket concept is patterned after the DC-XA that was operated by NASA and the Department of Defense under the Reusable Launch Vehicle program. The flight vehicle was tested at White Sands during the summer of 1996, and demonstrated a 26-hour turnaround between its second and third flights, a first for any rocket.
    The public space travel business is picking up suborbital speed thanks to a variety of private rocket groups and their dream machines.

    Joining the mix is Blue Origin's New Shepard Reusable Launch System. It is financially fueled by an outflow of dollars from the deep pockets of billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com.

    The Bezos-backed Blue Origin, LLC commercial space outfit has recently turned in a draft environmental assessment (EA) for their West Texas launch site to the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) in Washington, D.C.

    The document is the best glimpse yet of what Blue Origin is scoping out to develop "safe, inexpensive and reliable human access to space."
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 5 July 2006, 11:33.
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