Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again (arstechnica.com)

Geoffrey.landis writes: Blue Origin's "New Shepherd" suborbital vehicle made its first flight into space (defined as 100 km altitude)... and successfully landed both the capsule (by parachute) and the booster rocket (vertical landing under rocket power). This is the first time that a vehicle has made it into space and had all components fully recovered for reuse since the NASA flights of the X-15 in the 1960s. Check out the videos at various places on the web.

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Re:Cue the Musk apologists

[Anonymous Coward]

At least we didn't need to cue the people who don't know the difference between cue and queue.

"The Karman line? More like the LOSER line!"

[Pseudonymous Powers]

Billy (age 5): Look, Mommy, I writed a symphony!

Mom: Wrote, not writed, idiot. Let me see that. Harumph! This is barely a sonata. And no one writes for harpsichord anymore!

Billy: I wrote it for you! It's pretty, like you are!

Mom: Pandering, now? Disgusting. And I guess I would have been impressed, if Mozart hadn't beat you to it, by, oh, like, two hundred years!

god damn you, Sam I AM

[Thud457]

Did they land it on a barge?
No they did not land it on a barge.
Did they land it at sea?
No they did not land it at sea.

Blue Origin did not do these things I see.
So not as difficult can they be.