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2021-06-08 Science & Technology

JeffBezos plans to be on BlueOrigin’s inaugural New Shepard rocket flight

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Posted by Fred 2021-06-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Monkeys were sent up in missiles at White Sands Proving Ground in the 50's.

Posted by crazyhorse 2021-06-08 00:18|| 2021-06-08 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 ...and donkeys will be sent up shortly!

Posted by Raj 2021-06-08 00:25|| 2021-06-08 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Yawn. Call us when you can do real spaceflight: get to orbit and safely return in a fully man-rated spacecraft. Otherwise its just a glorified vomit comet ride.

Right now, that's Soyuz/Shenzhou and Falcon9+Dragon. And after this stunt it will remain Soyuz/Shenzhou and Falcon9+Dragon.

The only thing even close on the horizon is that Nasa corporate Boeing/Lockheed/Northrop bailout craft if it ever flies, and that crazy Heinlein rocket Elon Musk has down in Texas.

My money is on Musk - with rockets looking and landing the way God and Heinlein intended them to.

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-06-08 05:44|| 2021-06-08 05:44|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm all for sending the oligarchs into space. It's their return I have issues with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-08 06:38|| 2021-06-08 06:38|| Front Page Top

#5 an eleven minute flight most of which is unpleasant because of the accel or deccel

just for a few moments of bliss when you see earth

I'll have to admit that the time I saw a real live solar eclipse was fantastic but I only had to endure travel, traffic and parking problems to see it.

Posted by Lord Garth 2021-06-08 07:52|| 2021-06-08 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6
"One small step for a chimp, one giant leap for Bezos' kind."

Posted by Black Charlie Prince of the Jutes1819 2021-06-08 08:18|| 2021-06-08 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Tell me when they make one(+) complete orbits, otherwise shut up.

Posted by magpie 2021-06-08 09:44|| 2021-06-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, bye.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-06-08 12:27|| 2021-06-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope it blows up

Posted by Chris 2021-06-08 14:58|| 2021-06-08 14:58|| Front Page Top

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