Monday, September 5, 2011

Amazon CEO’s unmanned spacecraft crashes during test

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Russia’s space agency isn’t the only team having some trouble these days — just ask Amazon CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos about the difficulties of getting into space.

An unmanned spacecraft financed by Bezos’ spaceflight company Blue Origin crashed last week during a test flight in Texas, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The rocket experienced problems shortly after reaching an altitude of 45,000 feet and a speed of 1.2 times the speed of sound.

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