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Amazon CEO’s flying water tank crashes, leaves dent in his space travel dream

In a moment of profound candidness, Amazon billionnaire Jeff Bezos has revealed that the mid-air failure of his unmanned spaceship 11 days ago was “not the result any people wanted.” The searing truth of his statement is unquestionably borne out by the undeniable fact that NASA has poured millions of bucks of funding into Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, within the hope that it’ll someday ferry people to the ISS and replace the scuttled shuttle program . Indeed, Blue Origin’s latest craft looked every inch a shuttle-beater until it suddenly went beserk at 45,000 feet, forcing the Asimovian onboard computer to chop power and nose dive into the bottom as a way to avoid civilian casualties. Not an amazing result, to make certain, but Jeff is hardly more likely to quit on his starry ambitions — everybody knows he has a specific thing for thrusters .

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