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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	Blue Origin New Shepard: Mission 2 (NS-2)

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">collectSPACE <blockquote><font size="+0"><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-112415a-blue-origin-rocket-landing.html">Blue Origin's 'New Shepard' achieves first spaceflight and rocket landing</a></font><P><I>For the first time in history, a rocket used to launch a payload into space has returned to Earth and landed upright on legs.<P>Blue Origin, the commercial spaceflight company founded in 2000 by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, achieved the first-of-its-kind feat on Monday (Nov. 23) at its West Texas launch site, located near the town of Van Horn. The New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifted off at 11:21 a.m. CST (1721 GMT). Its uncrewed capsule flew 62.5 miles high (100.5 km), just past the internationally-recognized boundary of space.<P>"Rockets have always been expendable," said Bezos in a statement posted on Blue Origin's website. "Not anymore. Now safely tucked away at our launch site in West Texas is the rarest of beasts, a used rocket."</I></blockquote> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9pillaOxGCo?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

randy

Very cool. Maybe someday I'll be riding one of those.

spaced out

Very impressive indeed but... well this is a family show so let's just say that they have to change the shape of that spacecraft.

Robert Pearlman

Jeff Bezos was on CBS This Morning to discuss the flight:

issman1

So does this mean Mr. Bezos and co have pre-empted Mr. Musk's ambitions?

Bit of a surprise, in light of the spectacular SpaceX setback, but about time it happened.

Robert Pearlman

Depends on your definition of suborbital, apparently.

SpaceX has been conducting successful VTOL tests with its Grasshopper vehicles since 2013, a point Elon Musk pointed out this morning. McDonnell Douglas' DC-X "Delta Clipper" achieved the same before SpaceX or Blue Origin.

Blue Origin did succeed at safely landing the first booster that was used to launch a payload to space.

Musk and Bezos disagree about the differences between landing from a suborbital versus orbital flight.

SkyMan1958

However you want to define it, I'm glad to see it happen. It's GREAT to see commercial space pushing the envelope.

Robert Pearlman

Oh, absolutely. It's always fun to wake up and learn new space history has been made...

During a press call today, Bezos described it as such:

"I believe this is a new Golden Age of space exploration. The first Golden Age was the '60s. We have been treading water for a long time.
"We are on the verge of a new Golden Age in rocketry. I believe one day all rockets will have landing gear."

GACspaceguy

A great day in spaceflight!

mode1charlie

Very cool. Phil Plait has a good essay on the tweet war between Bezos and Musk and the merits of their respective claims.

Ken Havekotte

A great achievement for new commercial space endeavors as it was an incredible flight of Blue Origin's "New Shepard" from start to finish! It's certainly a giant leap forward in the private and commercial rocket transportation arena.

The industry has come a long way. Looking back to the 1980's, I can well remember (and even participated) in some of the first commercial rocket launch-flight test programs of Space Services Inc. of America, E'Prime Aerospace Corporation, among others.

Robert Pearlman

What 400 very happy rocket scientists look like...

mercsim

That was totally awesome! Watching the people that worked on it get that excited was better than the landing.

Congrats to the entire team.

If I could only convince my wife to move...

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