Company founded by JeffBezos to help man reach space. Pretty cool stuff, NealStephenson also works for them.
What is blue origin? The name adorns a blue awning outside a 53,000-square-foot, one-story warehouse on a desolate side street along Seattles Duwamish Waterway. SUVs and motorcycles are lined up out front seven days a week, often late into the night. Theres no record of the company in the citys phone books, and its workers will tell their neighbors only that the firm pursues scientific research. But the databases of the state of Washington offer more tantalizing clues. They reveal that Blue Origin is actually a space- research company and that the business was registered in 2000 from an office in Seattles old Pacific Medical Center, a building that since 1998 has been occupied by the worlds largest Internet retailer, Amazon.com.
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