Launch video of New Shepherd:
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.
It’ll be a smash hit.
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.
What is a Shepard?
I know where he can stick it......
...And only 3.65 million less pounds of thrust.
Just the same, they are headed in the right direction.
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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.
Gus Grissom dissed again!
WOW! Thanks for the post; link.
It’s all about thrust, Baby.
ya wanna move big payloads
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.