Blue Origin Launch Webcast

People will line up and pay big money to do it.

Baby steps. Human space flight is in its initial baby steps.

A private company making spaceflight routine for regular untrained people is something of importance in my book. Yes, the ticket price is at least 6 figures, but it's a start.

Or they could save the lives of millions of starving homeless people.

just sayin'

imagine if these rich morons spent hundreds of millions to build a space habitat. They then launch it and send people up there to live long term. That would be interesting.

Sending old people 62 miles straight up is about as exciting as climbing a tree. Sure it seems fun but ultimately it's nothing special.

Wow the whole operation looks cheap. This launch took Bezo's team 15+ years and billions of dollars. All it could accomplish was stroke a billionaire's ego.

It all looked like a cheap knock-off of SpaceX. From the launch facilities to the operations center. It just looks...cheap and unprofessional.

THIS is the team we expect to compete with SpaceX?

It IS a good window into the bubble a billionaire lives in. Nothing but ego stroking false positivity. No vision setting, it's all about him. Everything is roses in his world.

Notice how he doesn't mention his team, their hard work, etc.. Even the old-lady is pushed aside so "Jeff" can get the limelight. He didn't embrace her, show love or affection, etc.. It's not a team for him, it's about him.

Wow... I would not want to work for this man. He inspires nothing and no-one.

I guess Musk will now have to go into orbit to one up Bezos.

Well they not regular people then?

They elitist scumbags that stole everybody's pensions/futures.

They will be judged

Baby steps? Weren't we told by NASA that they sent someone to the moon in the 60's?

Correct me if I'm wrong but this would be considered baby steps if it came BEFORE sending people to the moon.

NASA says they sent remote control cars and helicopters to mars. They say they have pictures of Jupiter. They say people have lived in space for a year or more on the ISS and yet THIS is exciting?

its all cute until something tragic happens

and you know it eventually will



Last Edited by Dogfood™ on 07/20/2021 09:47 AM

It's just Hobby Lobby drone technology these days.

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Then everyone will have to be judged, Amiga!

The bitterness and jealousy is unbecoming. If you have the cash, you can book a flight too.

Pardon me, PRIVATE space flight. Jeez.

Glad it wasn't just me, for a moment I thought maybe I was just having an off day, lol.

This is a huge inspiration for all the children to see what they can achieve in life if they truly dedicate themselves over a long period of time.

Many young Engineers are being born today!

Maybe if their gooberments spent money (that the rest of the world gives them) on feeding their own instead of building palaces and hoarding gold the same would be accomplished.

Again, you are not distinguishing between the efforts of a national aerospace agency and a private company, or even between a private company developing spacecraft to fulfill government contracts (Dragon) and a spacecraft developed solely to take up tourists (SS2 and New Shepard). Whether you like it or not, and you clearly don't like it, this is a baby step on the road of commercial space tourism.

Spaceflight? What part of this was space? They didn't even leave earths atmosphere.

Also, where were their "space suits"? How were they protected from the massive radiation in the thermosphere?

Protected by the hull of the ship perhaps?

I honestly didn't even know it was happening today, found out when I woke up and clicked on the news. No plans on watching it at all, and then that.

"ladies first" is old and sexist.
its 2021. women are equal remember??

The part where they crossed 100 km altitude. That is space not only by the US definition but by the international definition as well.

They didn't have space suits, they weren't there to go on a space walk. The cabin was pressurized, cabin depressurization is just a risk they currently accept. Why are you under the impression that the radiation at that altitude would be dangerous over such a short time frame?

An amazing time to be alive.

Thank you, Astromutt, for posting this.

Last Edited by Swamprat on 07/20/2021 09:54 AM

Again, what part of this was space? They never left Earths atmosphere.
If they spent billions on alternative energy tech then maybe that would be exciting but at the end of the day a private company sending old people straight up at a cost of billions over the course of 15+ years is exceptionally cost prohibitive in the long run.

The news will talk about this for about 2 days (at the most) and then nothing. Nothing will happen again and no one will be launched straight up again. Just a dog and pony show for the cameras.

Gtfo. If I had that kind of money I pray I would do something that would actually benefit humanity, going on a space jaunt for a few mins does not fit the bill.

You dumbasses lapping it up are like the Zulu destroying his own shops with nowhere to go now. These elitists pay no taxes, and get free money at 0%, yet you happily carry the tax burden for them, the joke's on you

gotta applaud Astro's patience



cool thread!

Well, that's your decision to do with your money as you please. And it is Bezos' decision to develop this company with his money. You don't get a say in the matter. Personally, I'm glad for that kind of freedom.

coke bottle lens glass.

cheap equipment.

They experienced no gravity for 3 minutes. Sounds like space to me.