Space start-up Blue Origin owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos relesed images and video of a test launch of the private space launch test vehicle named
Goddard. The very successful flight took place in November 13, 2006, from a site in Culberson County, about 120 miles east of El Paso.
Goddard, which is very similar to McDonnell Douglas DC-X, is a vertical takeoff and landing vehicle designed to take three astronauts on suborbital trips into space. The prototype presumably is named for
Robert Hutchings Goddard, considered the father of modern rocket propulsion for building and successfully testing in 1926 the first rocket using liquid fuel.
Jeff Bezos said on the Internet page of his space venture,
Blue Origin,
"We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system."
"Accomplishing this mission will take a long time, and we're working on it methodically."
Blue Origin listed around 15 job opportunities on its site, including positions for a ground support systems engineer, propulsion development engineer, turbomachinery engineer, engineering analysis software developer, flight mechanics engineer and machinist.
Blue Origin received Federal Aviation Administration approval late last summer to begin its testing program.
Source : blueorigin.com
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