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Van Horn is a town in Culberson County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,435 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Culberson County.

On Friday, November 10, 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of amazon.com, had acquired 290,000 acres of land 40km North of Van Horn to house his fledgling space tourism company, Blue Origin.

Blue Origin is a privately-funded aerospace company initially focused on sub-orbital spaceflight founded in 2000. The company is developing a vehicle called the New Shepard. The company is owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and headquartered in a warehouse situated on 25 acres of industrial land in the Seattle, Washington suburb of Kent, where its research and development is located. It has its testing and operations center in Culberson County, Texas, on a portion of the Corn Ranch, a 165,000 acre (670 km²) spread north of Van Horn and 15 miles south of the Guadalupe Mountains.

The company has released few details regarding its development. As of January 2005, the company's website announces that it hopes to establish an "enduring human presence in space"; Bezos told Reuters in November 2004 that his company hopes to progress to orbital spaceflight. The New Shepard will be controlled completely by on-board computers, without ground control. Unmanned test flights began in November 2006. Once passenger flights begin, the company expects up to 52 launches a year.

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