Corn Ranch
Encyclopedia
Corn Ranch is a spaceport
in the West Texas town of Van Horn, Texas
, where flight tests of the New Shepard
are carried out by Blue Origin
. The 165,000-acre (670 km²) land parcel was purchased by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos
. The first flight test took place on November 13, 2006 with the goal of providing commercial tourist flights.
Spaceport
A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with seaport for ships or airport for aircraft. The word spaceport, and even more so cosmodrome, has traditionally been used for sites capable of launching spacecraft into orbit around Earth or on interplanetary trajectories...
in the West Texas town of Van Horn, Texas
Van Horn, Texas
Van Horn is a town in and the county seat of Culberson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Van Horn is located at ....
, where flight tests of the New Shepard
Blue Origin New Shepard
The Blue Origin New Shepard reusable launch vehicle is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing , suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon.com founder and businessman Jeff Bezos, as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.The New Shepard makes...
are carried out by Blue Origin
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is a privately funded aerospace company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement under the Commercial Crew Development program for development of concepts and technologies to support future human...
. The 165,000-acre (670 km²) land parcel was purchased by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is the founder, president, chief executive officer , and chairman of the board of Amazon.com.-Early life and background:...
. The first flight test took place on November 13, 2006 with the goal of providing commercial tourist flights.