Amazon Boss Shows Off Spacecraft (Bezos' Blue Origin Flight Test)

BBC News ^ | January 4, 2007

[taxed2death]

"I still like Burt Rutan's group design - Spaceship One. Simplistic and already got to space."

Me too. Wings are old school, but they work great when the engine quits. This thing looks like a gum drop and if something goes wrong I can see it screwing itself into the center of the earth in no time.

[anymouse]

The best thing about this accomplishment is that they used exactly "Zero" of your tax dollars to do this.

So pardon Jeff Bezos if he doesn't give a rat's fart about whether or not you think it is real or has enough exhaust plume to "look real."

[anymouse]

That's what parachutes are for.

BTW, wings don't always ensure a safe landing. Just ask the Columbia shuttle crew. Oh wait you can't - because they are all dead!!!

[Jhensy]

So pardon Jeff Bezos if he doesn't give a rat's fart about whether or not you think it is real or has enough exhaust plume to "look real."

Aaah bite me, Werner Von Moron.

[RightWhale]

hotel tycoon Robert Bigelow

Wolves as big as SUVs!

[darth]

Same problems. How they gonna get single-stage-to-orbit with H2/O2? Insufficient Isp.

[TeenagedConservative]

Yay!

Now abolish the black hole of government funds that is NASA.

[Enchante]

285 feet.... well they've surpassed the Wright Bros. on the first launch...... that's progress I suppose.

[MediaMole]

285ft down, only 327,075 more to the edge of space.

[Westlander]

Mission Control

[Shuttle Shucker]

What do you think of this as a NASA substitute?

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

[Shuttle Shucker]

Did we ever find out where Henry V. wound up?

[anymouse]

If you haven't figured that out with this recent development, you don't know Henry.

[Shuttle Shucker]

So he's with 'em? Fantastic! :-)