With his current $170 billion, he could fund BO for another 80 years. I expect the money making rocket to launch within another year or two.
They are targeting 9 months from now.
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With his current $170 billion, he could fund BO for another 80 years. I expect the money making rocket to launch within another year or two.
Blue Origin may be Jeff's Twitter; he wanted to get into the rocket business, but while he was doing so, the rocket business completely changed. Now he has a company that isn't going to be able to compete unless he essentially duplicates Starship. It's going to be a Twiter albatross for a while. The government will continue to send money at his company because they don't want to be reliant on a single company (SpaceX) for national security, but I think they'll just limp* along unless they get as aggressive as SpaceX is.Wow. I had read it was about $1 billion a year. It’s up to twice that? I wonder how much longer Bezos is going to be willing to provide that support, as I question whether BO will ever be profitable. Or maybe that isn’t the plan…
Yes, and yet SpaceX launched its first orbital class rocket just 4 years after the company started and in 6 years after starting succeeded in putting a payload in LEO.Huh, I didn't realize B.O. was founded 2 years before SpaceX
Scrubbed due to "ground system issue".So Blue Origin is reportedly launching New Shepard today at 9:30 ET... but the site is vague on time, and the video isn't live... so I suspect delay?
Scrubbed due to "ground system issue".
All the YouTube channels are listing it as scrubbed. The Launch Pad stream said that Blue Origin tweeted the scrub, but I don't have access to X. They now have a stream up for December 20 at 9AM.Oh yeah? Their web page still says today...
I found it so annoying that I turned the sound off. Then there's the data in mph and feet. Sadly, no horsepower numbers.but man is the webcast chatter prior to T-0 cringe-worthy
Bring back furlongs!I found it so annoying that I turned the sound off. Then there's the data in mph and feet. Sadly, no horsepower numbers.
I couldn't find the official BO video. So I found this instead. I just fast forwarded to the launch and landing stuff.For some reason I brain-farted on this yesterday... watching the replay now.
Awesome it was successful... but man is the webcast chatter prior to T-0 cringe-worthy... Karman line... big windows... how they are gonna bring back all this cool moon-tech to earth, their cool new elevator.... now I'm forcing myself to not fast-forward just to see how bad it gets....
There was a little extra drama because one of the chutes did not open.I've gotta stop watching those flights. They serve to poison any enthusiasm I have for actual spaceflight.
I don't see the purpose of these crewed flights, beyond technology demonstration which they have already done many times. This now looks like a Disney ride on steroids.I've gotta stop watching those flights. They serve to poison any enthusiasm I have for actual spaceflight.
You just want to put "Astronaut" on your TMC profile, and wear a shirt that reads "I Flew Above The Karman Line And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt".Personally, I think I would do one of these if it was a couple thousand, just to be above it all and see the curvature of the Earth.
It's supposed to be a Disney ride on steroids. That's the business plan. This is space tourism.I don't see the purpose of these crewed flights, beyond technology demonstration which they have already done many times. This now looks like a Disney ride on steroids.
And isn't that so lame? It's currently nothing more than the "I Am Rich" app for the iPhone. My first boss was fond of saying "P.T. Barnum was right", a reference to the phrase "There's a sucker born every minute".This is space tourism.