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Topic: [Discuss] Blue Origin's development program
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Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 47090 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 04-08-2017 03:35 PM
Please use this topic to discuss Blue Origin's development and operation of its suborbital and orbital launch programs. |
mode1charlie Member Posts: 1278 From: Honolulu, HI Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 04-08-2017 03:40 PM
The New York Times had a story this week about Jeff Bezos' announcement that he's selling $1 billion a year in Amazon stock to finance the development of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket and New Glenn orbital booster. Mr. Bezos, who hopes to build Blue Origin into a commercial and tourist venture, also disclosed that it would cost about $2.5 billion to develop an even bigger rocket, New Glenn, capable of lifting satellites and, eventually, people into orbit.Like his fellow technology titan Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, Mr. Bezos has identified reusable rocket parts as a key to lowering the price of admission to the field, which he said on Wednesday would lead to a "golden age of space exploration." "If we can make access to space low-cost, then entrepreneurs will be unleashed," he said. "You will see creativity, you will see dynamism, you will see the same thing in space that I've witnessed on the internet in the last 20 years." |
skyguard23 Member Posts: 54 From: Central Switzerland Registered: Dec 2016
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posted 10-02-2021 04:59 AM
A group of current and former Blue Origin employees level hefty criticism at the company in an open letter. We are a group of 21 former and current employees of Blue Origin. Many of us have spent our careers dreaming of helping to launch a crewed rocket into space and seeing it safely touch back down on Earth. But when Jeff Bezos flew to space this July, we did not share his elation. Instead, many of us watched with an overwhelming sense of unease. Some of us couldn't bear to watch at all. | |
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