this is nothing but a PR stunt.
Blue Origin is a joke.
Founded in 2000, and only just this year FINALLY managed an orbital flight.
SpaceX by comparison was founded in 2002 and launched its first orbital flight in 2008.
11 minute sub orbital flight, this isn’t even noteworthy on any level, other than its a glorified tourist flight.
Only real difference between this and had they got on a helicopter for a 15 minute grand canyon tour is that this went higher on a rocket.. that’s it.
Fact the press is making a bigger deal over this than Elon getting the astronauts home tells you all you need to know about the news.
“this is nothing but a PR stunt.
Blue Origin is a joke.
Founded in 2000, and only just this year FINALLY managed an orbital flight.”
I don’t think they even did that... I think it is all staged theatrics and a complete fraud. I think he is paying people to claim they rode it when it is all just AI generated.
Their New Glenn is their orbital craft which is still undergoing test flights. It made its first uncrewed orbital flight in January. It's booster stage was lost during reentry, and the second stage is currently in a medium earth orbit with the Blue Ring Pathfinder payload attached. It will be deorbited to burn up in the atmosphere, but that date has not been announced yet.
-PJ