Jeff Bezos just unveiled his new rocket. And it’s a monster.

Washington Post ^ | September 12, 2016 | Christian Davenport

[Vince Ferrer]

Spacex and Blue Origin are persuing the same goals, but from different angles. Spacex started out by going into space and then going for reusability. Blue Origin started going for reusability, and now is going for a large orbital craft.

Launch video of New Shepherd:

Flight Four – One Chute Out

[PGR88]

This is what makes America great. Private individuals competing for markets, advancement and fame. Why don’t we learn from this for ALL industries?

Someplace like China, with their top-down Communist Government, and even with all their huge number of technical people, would NEVER allow private space flight.

[Jeff Chandler]

It’ll be a smash hit.

[RoosterRedux]

The problem with this general idea is that Bezos created vast amounts of capital in building Amazon.

And now the way he spends that capital will either profoundly boost our world economy or it may be wasted.

If Jeff is as astute in spending his capital as he was in earning it, the world will be a better place.

If not, he is simply p!ssing it away.

The downside would be like Henry Ford spending his great wealth on cocaine for the common man so that everyone could get high for a little while.

Capital wasted is capital (i.e. future) lost.

[Vince Ferrer]

It’ll be a smash hit.

Hopefully more at the beginning than later. I think that one is going to take more space than a barge to land on. but Blue Origin has already landed their smaller one (the same rocket) four times.

[Magnum44]

Jeff Bezos just unveiled his new rocket. And it’s a monster.

It’ll be a smash hit.

A Monster Smash???

[marktwain]

It may be our Godly purpose to spread life throughout the Universe.

[Stingray51]

What is a Shepard?

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I hear it will explode onto the scene...

[heights]

I know where he can stick it......

[Vince Ferrer]

New Shepard is their first rocket. They are naming their rockets after American astronauts, that one is named after Alan Shepard, the first American in Space.You can see a launch of a New Shephard in my first post.

[GingisK]

...3.85 million pounds of thrust at sea level. The rocket would be nearly as tall as the mighty Saturn V...

...And only 3.65 million less pounds of thrust.

Just the same, they are headed in the right direction.

[Fiddlstix]

Bookmark

[Stosh]

Look at the difference in diameter of the main stage, and you can see one of the reasons why.

[bkopto]

Its too bad that Bezos is a leftist. He seems so competant otherwise.

It seems that nearly all the billionaires become leftist.

Maybe its to protect their businesses from upstarts, so they buy off governments to crush the upstarts.

[Tallguy]

Gus Grissom dissed again!

[PGalt]

WOW! Thanks for the post; link.

[Vince Ferrer]

Gus Grissom dissed again!

Yes, Gus was a guy unfairly maligned by the NASA bureaucracy after the door of his Mercury capsule blew. But he worked his way back and may have been the first to walk on the moon if it wasn't for his tragic death.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s all about thrust, Baby.

ya wanna move big payloads

[Ozark Tom]

There is a difference between a sight seeing excursion and putting payload in orbit. Any graphic artist can draw rockets for illustration purposes. Show us the hardware making delivery to orbit.