Posted on 12/11/2021 9:16:52 AM PST by hamburger hill
Blue Origin will conduct its third human spaceflight on Saturday, December 11, the first with six astronauts on board. The astronaut manifest includes, Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan, Evan Dick, Dylan Taylor, Cameron Bess, and Lane Bess.
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Lost all respect for that idiot Michael Strahan when he interviewed that little 7 year old drag queen and acted interested and supportive.
https://en.s4c.news/2018/11/19/11-year-old-child-drag-queen-promoted-on-abcs-good-morning-america/
11 year old.
This space tourism is cool. But it’s becoming ordinary. That is when the beast bites. Complacency and exuberance kills.
Unless there is an adverse outcome.
You would think a Drag Queen and a Flying Dildo would be a match made in heaven.
I just heard them referred to as “cashtronauts”.
Still a rather boring rocket powered stunt. Wake me when Blue Origin finally makes it to orbit.
Land on a moon or another planet then they can say space travel. Until that happens, it is just a dangerous flight into the upper atmosphere.
Tune in at 6:30am PT / 9:30am ET on Sat. Dec. 11 when Blue Origin's latest New Shepard rocket lifts-off with football hall of famer Michael Strahan onboard. (I set the link to t-minus 30, and the meet and greet after their hop seemed a little tedious to me)WATCH: Blue Origin Rocket Launch with Michael Strahan | Streamed live 3 hours ago | CNET Highlights
Not as exciting as SpaceX, but the fact that booster lands is still pretty good.
Look at this article from almost 6 years ago:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a18711/blue-origin-vs-spacex/
Not too much has changed since then. Mach 3 versus mach 30.
Well put. From April 2015 to April 2021, this New Shepard booster made 15 sub-orbital test flights, and during the second half of 2021 finally flew some people. This third such flight was dubbed “Original Six”, I guess because the previous two flights only carried four each. According to the wiki-wacky, three more tourist hops are planned for 2022.
Meanwhile, Blue Origin can’t seem to complete work on the much larger engine needed for the proposed New Glenn booster, and more to the point, for their customer to use in their spacecraft design.
By constrast, SpaceX’ biggest problem as stated is, inability to construct their large engine quickly enough to suit Musk, oops, I mean, to launch the phase 2 Starlink sats.
Also by constrast, using good old RP-1 and LOX, the SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule combo has been delivering cargo to orbit since May 2012, and taking crews to the ISS and back since May 2020.
My wild guess is, the Starship won’t have its first successful orbital test flight for a year or more, but in 2023 will take a trip around the Moon whether NASA is ready or not, and a prototype Mars version will manage orbital capture at Mars sometime in 2024 or early 2025. Launch window for Mars occurs a bit more than every two years, and a round trip takes under three years.
Thank you for the background information. So it’s a race: will Blue Origin make it to earth orbit before SpaceX makes it to Mars orbit?
SpaceX would have already completed a sub-orbital flight if the FAA had not interfered. Also, Bezo’s silly lawsuits stopped the moon trips for months for nothing. I believe that SpaceX will make several sub-orbital flights during 2022.
I watched the launch and was struck by the image of the craft seeming to lack something to be complete.
Then I realized what was needed was a large globe on either side of the rocket exhaust.
Heh, yeah...
Shelby of AL was behind a lot of the roadblocks Musk experienced.
“ Shelby of AL was behind a lot of the roadblocks Musk experienced.”
May be why Musk is coming to Texas.
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