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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
#12I’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.
All of them sub-orbital, launching a parabola rocket is much easier than putting something out in space.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#13An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#14That is one way to top Elon Musk :-)
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#15An Elon / Jeff space willy-waving contest about who gets to be Space Bro Alpha seems like a net win for humanity
American Oligarchs are certainly up to more interesting things than Russian ones at the moment!
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#16I’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 lots of successes in testing and it is a far less dangerous thing than orbital flight and reentry
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#17I’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.
> considerably safer than mountain climbing
I thought that the failure rate for manned missions was accepted to be around 1 crew loss in several hundred flights. That seems much worse than typical mountain climbing, with Everest and K2 being somewhat riskier than space flight on a per-attempt basis.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#18Congratulations to everyone who contributed with their wallet. We did it, Amazon users!
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> considerably safer than mountain climbing I thought that the failure rate for manned missions was accepted to be around 1 crew loss in several hundred flights. That seems much worse than typical mountain climbing, with Everest and K2 being somewhat riskier than space flight on a per-attempt basis.
The Shuttle's rate was much higher than that one in several hundred - two full crew losses in 135 launches.
That said, suborbital flight is substantially safer.
Re: Jeff Bezos will fly on the first passenger spaceflight of Blue Origin in July
#20Off-topic, but did Bezos just do plastic surgery?