Posted on 09/12/2016 5:32:32 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
I can't wait for "Big Buzz"!
I saw that. I’ve looked right up into the butt of a Saturn V as well. Its source of power is wondrous. I missed the last firing of a Saturn V in Huntsville by two months. Bummer first class.
This is all a charade. It’s going nowhere. Not in my lifetime!
Noticed that Blue Origin did not include a picture of the upcoming and very large NASA SLS in their comparative chart.
Is that contempt for NASA’s sluggish pace and generally lack of direction, or does Blue Origin just want to look as big as possible in this billionaire d-ck measuring contest?
In the statement, Bezos wrote that the company’s mascot is a tortoise, a symbol from the fable the Tortoise and the Hare. Its motto is “Gradatim Ferociter” – Latin for “step by step, ferociously,” he wrote. “We believe ‘slow is smooth and smooth is fast.’ In the long run, deliberate and methodical wins the day, and you do things quickest by never skipping steps,” he wrote.
The Feather is backwards, it should be flipped around like on an arrow.
Other than that…Holy Smokes get the popcorn.
ULA is impressed enough by their hardware that they have chosen the BE-4 for their new Vulcan rocket, to replace their Russian engines. So I think ULA have looked at the engines and their manufacturing capabilities.
They announced the New Shephard as a suborbital tourist vehicle, and they have flown it several times. But it was always just a stepping stone to this new rocket. They made that plain. But if you think about it, they have launched the vehicle four times successfully, but they never have seemed to taken the step to offer tourist rides. Was that ever their intention, or were they just hiding in plain sight?
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