Newsweek on the new space race

04/26/03 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Newsweek's latest issue has an excellent article on the private space race going on right now; a lot of it in some secrecy and funded by internet billionaires - the scoop there is that Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com seems to have his own venture, Blue Origin, which is planning its own X-prize style vehicle; about 2 years away from launch. More discussion of this over at slashdot.