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Blue Origin Release Flight Videos
Reality Master 101 writes "Space start-up Blue Origin (financed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos) had a secret test flight on November 13, 2006. They've now released video and pictures of the very successful flight. Looks like they're making good progress." From the page: "We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take a long time, and we're working on it methodically."
We're working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system.
What, you mean $20 million a person isn't low enough?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
You are going to run out of fuel.
Land on the pad quickly.
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Why yes, yes I do.
I wonder if I use bold in my signature, people will notice my posts.
Dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous!!
Oh, it's dihydrogen dioxide? Carry on then!
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
I want to see the video of the crayola sponsored craft with the four rockets in the corners being launched.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I hope this helped.
I'm not sure it helped, but at least you're nominated for Cynical Poster of the Month award. I hope you attend the show to take the prize, but as always, the competition for that spot on Slashdot is really tough.
Ironic that most other sites with an embedded video needs only one click to start it playing; I had to download the WMV then open it. I've even heard of some online bookstore patenting the idea for ordering with single click.
Too bad the poor fellow who put this page together couldn't have taken a leaf outta their book. Maybe he's afraid of the patent holder going after him?
This is nothing but tinfoil hat nonsense created by the space fanboi crowd to explain why a magic wand hasn't been waved and provided them with masturbatory fantasies.
The reality those companies have every incentive to chase profit making opportunities... But that's the catch, its quite unclear that building cheap rockets (which means building rockets by the metric buttload) will be profitable. It costs from tens of millions to hundreds of millions to develop a new rocket and to build out the manufacturing, support, and launch infrastructure - and prospects for a return on that investment are, to put it very mildly, bleak to nonexistent. The markets simply don't exist.