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Yazata Offline Jun 7, 2021 05:23 PM (This post was last modified: Jun 8, 2021 04:29 AM by Yazata.)
Blue Origin has just announced that Jeff Bezos and his brother will be riding the first human spaceflight of their little suborbital rocket on July 20!

https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/14...8873934850

Like the other new Shepherd flights, it will launch from Corn Ranch in the West Texas Big Bend country.

"It's an adventure," Bezos said in a video posted with the announcement. "It's a big deal for me."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolog...ar-AAKNlTB
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Yazata Offline Jul 9, 2021 02:19 AM (This post was last modified: Jul 9, 2021 02:38 AM by Yazata.)
(Jul 8, 2021 06:36 PM)C C Wrote:
(Jul 8, 2021 05:02 PM)Yazata Wrote: Here's a funny Australian reaction from some TV presenters with dirty minds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM4iySAByI

I didn't realize Bezos was a fan of that Austin Powers movie: https://youtu.be/EXP2qAvinnk

Have you ever noticed how much Jeff Bezos looks like Dr. Evil?
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C C Offline Jul 9, 2021 07:20 PM
(Jul 9, 2021 02:19 AM)Yazata Wrote:
(Jul 8, 2021 06:36 PM)C C Wrote:
(Jul 8, 2021 05:02 PM)Yazata Wrote: Here's a funny Australian reaction from some TV presenters with dirty minds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkM4iySAByI

I didn't realize Bezos was a fan of that Austin Powers movie: https://youtu.be/EXP2qAvinnk

Have you ever noticed how much Jeff Bezos looks like Dr. Evil?

It's truly an uncanny resemblance in more ways than one.


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/P_GBVSwzyQ4
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Yazata Offline Jul 20, 2021 02:54 PM (This post was last modified: Jul 21, 2021 04:14 AM by Yazata.)
Successful flight. Dr Evil and his evil cohorts are safely back on Earth. Bwa ha ha ha!

Actually this was very cool. It was the first manned spaceflight on a suborbital vertical-launch rocket since Mercury-Redstone 60 years ago. (Richard Branson's flight, the Spaceship-One do-it-yourself spaceship and the X-15's were all winged rocket planes.) Today's flight included both the oldest (82) and youngest (18) person ever to fly in space.

The booster returned and successfully soft-landed on its lovely landing pad. While the capsule with four people aboard separated, coasted on momentum up to 107.05 km, then descended and landed under parachutes in the west Texas desert. All the passengers were in great shape and visibly elated.

If they start including spaceflights with Amazon Prime, maybe I'll sign up.

Photos by Jack Beyer


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Yazata Offline Aug 26, 2021 08:03 PM (This post was last modified: Aug 26, 2021 08:16 PM by Yazata.)
Big news from Blue!

They rolled out a big stainless steel test tank at Cape Canaveral for pressure tests, and it resembles the early Boca Chica Sn's! That resemblance is more than appearance. It's part of something that they call Project Jarvis, a plan to develop a large reusable Starship-style second stage for New Glenn.

It just might work. If Starship encounters serious problems and Blue's smaller version works more safely and efficiently, it could become America's go-to space vehicle. Even if it's just equally efficient, many payloads won't need Starship's larger capacity.

Word is that Project Jarvis was set up separate from the Blue Origin management bureaucracy and told by Jeff Bezos to practice a "fail-forward" Elon-style rapid prototyping development strategy (despite that being "high risk").

It still isn't clear how they plan to land it and there are indications that even they aren't sure themselves. They have several possible schemes under consideration. But it's an indication of Blue's new "damn the torpedoes" philosophy that they are moving ahead with tank testing regardless. (SpaceX obviously rubs off on the rest of the industry.)

I have to say that I like it. I've long felt that Blue needed a shake-up and it looks like newly-minted space-traveler Jeff Bezos has decided the same thing.

(Photo by Trevor Mahlmann for Ars Technica)


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