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murder
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Thu Jan 16 15:24:52 2025
Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket

Bypassing engine chill issues and a wayward boat, Blue Origin got to T-0.

http://ars...-its-titanic-new-glenn-rocket/
murder
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Thu Jan 16 15:38:06 2025

The booster was not recovered.

Sam Adams
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Thu Jan 16 18:51:12 2025
Pretty cool. 2 us billionares have done more space than all of europe and china combined ever.
murder
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Fri Jan 17 00:54:41 2025

At least one billionaire rocket made it to orbit today.

Paramount
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Fri Jan 17 01:13:17 2025
” The rocket's reusable first stage booster was due to land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean after separating from its second stage, but failed to make that landing, Cornell confirmed. Telemetry from the booster blacked out minutes after liftoff.
"We did in fact lose the booster," Cornell said. Blue Origin did not explain why or by how much the booster missed its landing”


So parts of the rocket just fell apart uncontrollably.

USA is polluting the world, the space, and is putting the lives of people, animals and plants at risk.

Very irresponsible.
murder
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Fri Jan 17 14:12:45 2025

Blue Origin's launch succeeded, but most of the coverage today is of the Starship mission that failed.

Jeff Bezos has to be pissed. :o)

jergul
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Fri Jan 17 14:25:30 2025
Murder
I think he views this as a turtle hare race.
murder
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Fri Jan 17 20:41:57 2025

Maybe so, but even when the hare pulls ahead, he still can't get attention.

jergul
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Fri Jan 17 23:24:24 2025
I think he is the turtle in his mind.
jergul
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Fri Jan 17 23:25:44 2025
I get it. There are two outcomes for the other guy. Crashing and burning. Probably literally. Storing urine in glass jars as a recluse.
murder
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Sat Jan 18 00:06:53 2025

lmfao! This is why you don't think jokes to yourself while you're posting.

Sam Adams
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Sat Jan 18 02:47:15 2025
"Jeff Bezos has to be pissed."

I mean the spacex rocket launched in the middle of the day and had amazingly high quality video. BO went out in the middle of the night with 2001 era webcams and bitrates.

So theres a very good reason starship got all the news.
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