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Amazon.com Founder Bezos Wants to Colonize Space **
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos expects a rocket-ship complex for his aerospace venture Blue Origin to open early next year.
City records show that an office and warehouse he’s revamping in this south Seattle suburb will be used to design and build spacecraft and engines.
Blue Origin has released few details about the project. But a Texas newspaper editor who interviewed Bezos earlier this year said the billionaire talked sending a spaceship into orbit that launches and lands vertically, like a rocket, and eventually building spaceships that can orbit the Earth - possibly leading to permanent colonies in space.
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