- Corn Ranch
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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.[1]
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- Pictures of the spaceport
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Corn Ranch (locale)
Spaceports Asia and the
Middle EastEurope 
FKA: Kapustin Yar · Plesetsk · 
SSC: EsrangeNorth America 
CAF / CSA: Fort Churchill · 
NASA: KSC · Wallops · DoD: Cape Canaveral (ER) · Vandenberg (WR) · Private: Corn Ranch · Jacksonville · Kodiak · Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport · Mojave · Oklahoma · Spaceport AmericaSouth America 
FAB / AEB: Barreira do Inferno · Alcântara · 
Private: Spaceport Curaçao · 
ESA / CNES: Guiana/KourouPacific Africa Coordinates: 31°25′24″N 104°45′32″W / 31.42333°N 104.75889°W
Categories:- Spaceports
- Buildings and structures in Culberson County, Texas
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