Group's spacecraft details revealed Blue Origin's next-generation Space Vehicle undergoing wind tunnel tests to refine and validat...

Group's spacecraft details revealed

Blue Origin's next-generation Space Vehicle undergoing wind tunnel tests to refine and validate its biconic shape.

Steve Knowles, Blue Origin project manager (left) points out details of Blue Origin's BE-3 engine thrust chamber assembly to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. The rocket gear is set for May testing on the E-1 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, fourth from left, meets Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos in December 2011, shown next to Blue Origin's crew capsule.

Secretive Blue Origin Project Pins Spaceflight Hopes on Reusable Rockets

The curtain of secrecy is being raised by Blue Origin, a private entrepreneurial space group designing both suborbital and orbital vehicles. Backed by Amazon.com mogul Jeff Bezos, the Kent, Wash.-based Blue Origin group has completed wind tunnel testing of its next-generation craft, simply called the "Space Vehicle."