Blue Origin :: Bezos

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11 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

The big deal is being lost in the hype. What should be getting the attention is the development of a reusable rocket, specifically the engineering required to land it. Skip to about 9:30 in the video:

It's very cool, but unfortunately much of their landing technique doesn't scale up. The New Shepard comes to a full stop in the air, stabilizes, and slowly touches down because the small engine (BE3) can deep throttle down to something like 20% power.  Bigger rocket engines have a harder time doing that, with Blue Origin's next-gen BE4 engine no exception.  If SpaceX could land the Falcon 9 like that, I'm sure they would. Instead they had to learn how to do a suicide burn at the end to get delta-v to zero right at zero altitude.  

 

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Y’all can ride Bezos’ rocket; if I’m in Van Horn, I’m eating a green chile cheeseburger.

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16 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Y’all can ride Bezos’ rocket; if I’m in Van Horn, I’m eating a green chile cheeseburger.

With extra chiles., onion, and a fried egg. THEN you jump in Bezos’ USS Kosher Schlong a few hours later and let nature take its course. 

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Lmao blue origin is announcing a new commercial space station being built and developed in partnership with boeing.

I wouldn't trust starliner to make any resupply or recrew mission on time at this point...

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Will it also be extremely phallic in design?

Seems to be par for the course round that joint. 

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Alan Shepherd's daughter went into space this morning, along with Michael Strahan and 4 others, on a Blue Origin rocket.  A New Shepherd rocket at that.

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That thing looked like it landed hard enough to fix the gap in Strahan's teeth.

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Kanye going to be watching with interest.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-comedian-pete-davidson-blasting-off-to-space-next-week/ar-AAV2vX3

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American comedian and actor Pete Davidson, who has made headlines recently for his new relationship with Kim Kardashian, is going to space as part of a six-member team on Blue Origin's next flight next week, the company said Monday.

The Saturday Night Live star will be the only non-paying guest on the voyage aboard the New Shepard rocket, which is set to blast off from the company's Launch Site One in West Texas on March 23 at 8:30 am local time (1330 GMT).

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It will be the fourth human flight for the company, which launched its billionaire founder and owner Jeff Bezos to space on its first crewed mission last summer.

Davidson, 28, has been in the news lately for dating reality-star-turned-entrepreneur Kardashian, whose contentious divorce from rapper Kanye West was finalized earlier this month.

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The other crewmates are CEO and investor Marty Allen; husband and wife Sharon and Marc Hagle, who run a nonprofit and business, respectively; teacher and explorer Jim Kitchen, and George Nield, who founded a company that promotes commercial space activity.

The ticket prices remain a secret, as they have since the first flight.

The husband and wife

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