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Space Tourism Coming Soon - Successful Spent Rocket Landing on Earth
Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:04 am
Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:04 am
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin Succeeds in Landing Spent Rocket Back on Earth
A 4.4 MPH landing - not bad, sir...
Youtube Video
Smithsonian Article
A 4.4 MPH landing - not bad, sir...
Youtube Video
Smithsonian Article
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Commercial suborbital flights carrying paying passengers could start in less than two years, Bezos says
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The space company backed by Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos announced a historic coup with the test flight of a fully reusable rocket, which could usher in a new era for space transportation.
Privately funded Blue Origin LLC said it successfully landed a spent rocket back on Earth after an unmanned flight to the edge of space.
The company’s reusable New Shepard vehicle flew a suborbital test to 333,000 feet on Monday reaching nearly four times the speed of sound, and then both the capsule and its BE-3 liquid-fueled rocket separately landed safely in West Texas—ready for another flight.
Buoyed by the mission, Mr. Bezos for the first time sketched out an ambitious timetable that envisions starting commercial suborbital flights carrying paying passengers potentially in less than two years. “We’ll fly humans when we’re ready,” he said in a brief interview Tuesday. But if all goes well, he added, “I’m thinking it could be sometime in 2017.”
This post was edited on 11/25/15 at 11:10 am
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Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:06 am to Shexter
amazon put all those small mom and pop book shops out of business and now theyre wasting their money on space. Nasa already said there wasn't anything to see out there
Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:13 am to el Gaucho
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Nasa already said there wasn't anything to see out there
https://www.blueorigin.com/astronaut-experience
Space tourism - launching paying customers into space, then back to earth safely. It's a 4 minute space walk. Reusable rockets keeps costs down.
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Following a thrilling launch, you’ll soar over 100 km above Earth—beyond the internationally recognized edge of space. You’ll help extend the legacy of space explorers who have come before you, while pioneering access to the space frontier for all.
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Sitting atop a 60-foot-tall rocket in a capsule designed for six people, you’ll feel the engine ignite and rumble under you as you climb through the atmosphere. Accelerating at more than 3 Gs to faster than Mach 3, you will count yourself as one of the few who have gone these speeds and crossed into space.
This post was edited on 11/25/15 at 11:21 am
Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:17 am to Shexter
The chick shaking the champagne bottle has me triggered. 
Posted on 11/25/15 at 11:32 am to jdd48
I'd prefer to wait for a little longer trip. Only going up 60 miles and then dropping back to earth sounds like a glorified Demon Drop ride.
Posted on 11/25/15 at 12:11 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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I'd prefer to wait for a little longer trip. Only going up 60 miles and then dropping back to earth sounds like a glorified Demon Drop ride.
A better use of this would be transporting people and goods ballistically. I mean if you can land the rocket safely, you could theoretically land people.
That hop across the pond just got a whole lot shorter.
Posted on 11/25/15 at 12:15 pm to NYNolaguy1
I hate flying so this does not appeal to me at all. I'd have to borderline OD on Xanax to go up in that thing
Posted on 11/25/15 at 2:24 pm to NYNolaguy1
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That hop across the pond just got a whole lot shorter
It would be much quicker than landing a jet on a runway. They could possible land that thing in an area the size of a Walmart parking lot.
Posted on 11/25/15 at 2:28 pm to Shexter
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It would be much quicker than landing a jet on a runway. They could possible land that thing in an area the size of a Walmart parking lot.
I think in time that's the future. Until then I would be scared shitless upon landing
Posted on 11/25/15 at 2:33 pm to Shexter
Frick yeah
What a time to be alive
What a time to be alive
Posted on 11/25/15 at 2:33 pm to Shexter
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It would be much quicker than landing a jet on a runway. They could possible land that thing in an area the size of a Walmart parking lot.
Goofdell will love that. More games in London.
Posted on 11/25/15 at 2:35 pm to Shexter
My spent rocket returns to it's resting stage only a minute after full throttle.
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