Such a shame he wasn’t on board at the time
Bummer. He might have to use 0.00001% of his wealth to build another one.
With him inside, right?
There will be no prime day…
boom! fuck yeah!
If only Nolan had used this for Oppenheimer.
Ha ha
Was he on board? No? Oh.
Hopefully it’s not a design issue. Somebody needs to compete with SpaceX so Elon Musk doesn’t have an iron grip on space. Bezos sucks but at least they’d be forced to keep other in check if New Glenn works.
Here’s an idea: instead of private corporations sucking $20B a year on bad engineering, why not directly use that money for a not for profit federal agency?
We could call it the National Aeronautic Space Administration for Launches. Or, NASAL.
believe me, I am all for public space. The problem is Congress fucking sucks. And also NASA can’t afford as much as said private corporations
We have that already: NASA’s Space Launch System.
It’s … debatable whether it gives better results than commercial contracts.
Rocket Lab is doing well. Should really take off when they get Neutron off the launch pad
I hope so! But also it’s going to need testing and that might take ages. Also New Glenn is competing with Starship / Falcon Heavy iirc so different class
New Glenn wont really be competing with starship if they truly make it rapidly and fully reusable. Its gonna be a massive shift in access to space.
Until thats a proven capability though, then ya theyll be competing.
If starship works, New Glenn will likely only get launches as it’ll be imperative to still fund other space programs so there are backups and so they can improve and catch up.
Edit: and any non US country wanting to avoid a US launch partner will be avoiding both of them, so they wont compete that way either.
Yep, this effectively handed Musk complete dominance for another 12 months.
Who paid for this? Really…?
Everyone buying shit from Amazon without thinking about the choice they’re making
Many of the world’s problems can be laid at the feet of people putting their personal conveniences above everything else
Considering how Bezos manage to get tax cuts, I’d say the US citizens are paying for this.
