Blue Origin Failed To Launch A Rocket Again.... It's Embarrassing! | 14:28
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Posted on 10/12/2024 8:20:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Blue Origin Failed To Launch A Rocket Again.... It's Embarrassing! | 14:28
Space Trends | 47.8K subscribers | 35,835 views | October 8, 2024
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Right now, I don’t think the enviro-wackos and the EPA matter all that much. But the FAA...
I think the FAA is going to do all it can to help Blue Origin do whatever it takes to get ahead. Why? Bezos is an uber-Liberal who supports Biden AND Commie-La.
And Musk? Look for the FAA to slow-walk and hinder SpaceX as much as they can, lawsuit notwithstanding.
On a side note: My uber-lib sister and her husband are big-time space geeks, just like me. It used to be that she’d message or email me whenever SpaceXdid something successful.
However, since Musk announced he was a Republican and supports Trump, its like overnight he became Public Eneny #2.
You can guess who Public Enemy #1 is.
Next flight is TOMORROW MORNING! Musk or someone put enough pressure on the agencies to push through his launch license.
Yep, they’re nowhere near SpaceX’s level of competence or capability, and I’m confident predicting they never will be. Every entrepreneurial start-up, which both of these companies are, takes on the character of its founder. Musk is relatively humble, has common sense, and is a rare genius who focuses his time and incredible wealth not on himself, but on pursuing the things he wants to achieve. Bezos, on the other hand, seems to be an arrogant little pr!ck (which might explain the strange shape of his rocket) who spends his money on megayachts, supermodel girlfriends, and his own aggrandizement. It should be no surprise their results are wildly divergent. Bezos is doing whatever he’s doing to show off, while Musk is using SpaceX to pursue what he believes are critical goals for mankind.
Quite frankly, this is Free Republic.
We WILL bash liberals, their projects, their companies, and anyone who supports them.
Period.
End of rant.
RocketLab appears to be strictly an expendible launch system for small payloads, and there’s a lot of business there, even with its higher cost (much higher) compared with SpaceX. Looks like they’re going to shake out as the number two. They’ve got a reusable human-rated project in development, and are based in New Zealand, pretty cool. The reusable is being developed in the US and be launched from Virginia.
The space program of India was developed at a ridiculously low budget and has accomplished quite a lot. They’ll probably be/remain in the top five if they can hang in there.
Since the US lunar rover project was completed for billion$ and then its launch was ****canned, it would probably make sense for NASA to partner with India to get it launched if the FAA and EPA keeps planting obstructions to SpaceX. India wouldn’t have to build the rover, and NASA wouldn’t have to pay a dime to launch it.
ESA had a good run with Ariane 5 (sez here 112 launches through 2019), but has never sent a human to space — ESA has relied primarily on NASA. Given the current multinational suicide of the EU, it seems unlikely that the ESA will do anything but decline. The Ariane 6 has had its test flight, but remains an expensive expendible system.
Regarding orbital space stations, after the ISS is retired and sent into destructive reentry over the Pacific Ocean, the launch cadence will be even higher than it is now, so the need for a place to stay may decline.
TR, the first RINO.
They haven’t orbited anything. It is you who do not know what you are talking about.
Ahh....this is about politics. I thought it was about rockets and space. My mistake. Please carry on with your liberal bashing. I’ve got rocket engine parts to make. Good day.
Thanks!
“My penis! My big, fiery penis has ED!” ~ Bezos was heard to ejaculate. ( in th old, literary sense).
lol [singing] it’s the Space Condom, you know that ain’t where it’s at...
Blue Origin is a disorganized joke.
Many of Amazon distribution centers have become largely automated. I've seen clips of various types of robots scrambling around to move product off shelves and to the shipping areas of the same huge facility.
I started using Amazon years ago when they first started offering products other than books. Bezo changed the consumer marketplace. Now, even the smallest company has on-line buying.
I haven't been to a brick and mortar store in years. I google whatever product I want and then see if Amazon is providing it for less. Depending on if in house, they do. If not in an Amazon facility, Amazon is then a 3PL (third party) shipping and/or physical carrier for the order.
Plus, I'm a Prime member which provides shorter shipping to my door.
From what I read, it appears that NASA put pressure on the FAA to relent. I think NASA is starting to realize that SpaceX is NASA’s only hope for success. ULA just had a failure with Vulkan, Boeing and Starliner are hopeless basket cases, and of course Blue Origin might as well not even exist. All while SpaceX just continues to turn space flight into a daily (sometimes multiple times per day) routine thing. It’s comical how far SpaceX’s achievements have outrun the competition. They have no competition. The bloated, bureaucratic legacy companies, like those in the ULA consortium and Boeing, that are so closely tied to government that they effectively ARE government, can’t get out of their own way while SpaceX continues to lap them and when necessary, even clean up their messes (good morning, Butch and Suni).
I truly believe NASA has begrudgingly decided to admit this and are trying to get the politically-driven FAA to knock off the obstruction.
As was once said about NASA, “Our Germans were better than their Germans.” That is not to say we need to comb Europe for ex-Nazi scientists, only to observe by results whose team has accomplished more. I’m posting this over a satellite communications system placed in orbit by SpaceX. When Blue Origin has a similar track record, they’ll get similar credit. Why it’s happening is debatable, that it’s happening isn’t.
Elon’s rockets work, Boeing and Blue Origin not to good.
-PJ
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