Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
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Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#2I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it?
I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
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Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#4I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
They have done many successful flights.
They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#5I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
They've done 14 successful launches. It's probably considerably safer than mountain climbing etc.
On the other hand, Blue Origin's competitor Virgin Galactic isn't automated and looks a lot more dangerous.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#6I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
They have done many successful flights. They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
BO has completed 15 test flights over 6 years of a platform that bears little comparison with SpaceX's achievements.
Each BO test I've watched has been very well presented and seemingly marketed - it's just that at this point, frankly, what they're doing is of less interest than that what SpaceX has accomplished.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#7Well, eat your own dogfood they say.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#8I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm
They're required to have contingency plans in case something happens to him, but they can't keep him from going. Not that they would if they could.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#9I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
They have done many successful flights. They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
Suborbital flights. Which require about 3% of energy needed to reach an orbit, and are of very limited practical use other than serving as an extended rollercoaster ride for tourists.
Blue Origin are very far away from achieving anything comparable to even SpaceX first Falcon-1 flight from 2008.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#10I’m wondering if Amazon wouldn’t let him do this while he was at the helm. It sounds quite dangerous. Your first manned flight and it has the world’s richest man and owner in it? I don’t keep up with Blue Origin, have they demonstrated the ability to do this safely?
They have done many successful flights. They just don’t have the marketing skills of someone like a Spacex.
The flights are of completely different magnitude. SpaceX sends humans to orbital velocity. BO goes straight up and down to the karman line