Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Successfully Lands Capsule, Rocket

"You've seen a lot of rockets take off in your time, but you've never seen one land."

by RDM Staff
December 11, 2015

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket successfully flew to the edge of space, reaching the Karman line (100 km/329,839 ft) before a picture-perfect landing in West Texas.

"You've seen a lot of rockets take off in your time, but you've never seen one land," Bezos, who also owns Blue Origin, told Charlie Rose on "CBS This Morning." "The rocket you see behind me is completely reusable. That's a game changer, because it changes the cost structure of space travel completely."

Bezos expects his rockets to carry paying customers within two years.

"I've been wanting to do that since I was five years old," he said. "When I talk to astronauts, they tell me that being in space changes you. You see the Earth in a different way, you see yourself in a different way, they describe the experience as being very meaningful. So I want to see the Earth and see its thin atmosphere, I want to look out into space, I want to feel weightlessness and float around and do somersaults, all th…