] fter years of work behind closed doors, Amazon.com
] founder Jeff Bezos has gone public with a plan to build a
] suborbital space facility on a sprawling ranch under the
] wide open skies of West Texas.
]
] Bezos' Seattle-based Blue Origin suborbital space venture
] is starting the process to build an aerospace testing and
] operations center on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a
] 165,000-acre spread that the 41-year-old billionaire
] purchased north of Van Horn, Texas. Over the next six or
] seven years, the team would use the facility to test
] components for a craft that could take off and land
] vertically, carrying three or more riders to the edge of
] space.