Word is…and it’s not much, is that the Blue Origin rocket was flown on Monday, November 13. The test flight departed a private spaceport north of Van Horn in Texas.

An AP wire story has it that the private firm’s rocket was a “one or two-minute event”, according to a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official. Whether the “event” was a dud or dead-on straight up and straight down flight of the group’s vertical takeoff and landing craft is not immediately known.

Larry Simpson of the Van Horn Advocate newspaper explained to me noting that his comments are unofficial — that Blue Origin staffers and their families came into town last Thursday, along with invited guests to view the Monday launch. He’s been told that the rocket flew up to 500-1,000 feet and then returned to Earth - with things going pretty much as expected.

Earlier, the FAA had issued a notice to aircraft to stay away from a stretch of remote area near Van Horn, Texas - the spaceport property of the Blue Origin group - the rocket enterprise backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com fame and fortune.

The notification ran from November 10th into November 13th. The no-fly-over zone stretched in radius 5 miles and up to and including 10,000 feet altitude.

Blue Origin is focusing on a rocket to support personal space travel. For detailed information on what they have publicly stated, click here.

Here is a look at Blue Origin’s launch site: [map].