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Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by bawolff »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #5
FreakyT wrote: post #3

It's really a shame what has happened to Blue Origin. They've gone from a promising space startup to yet another purveyor of perpetual vaporware. Where is the BE-4 engine? Delayed, again and again. New Glenn, the rocket that could actually go into orbit? Same. So far their only functioning hardware (New Shephard) is, in effect, a glorified amusement park ride. Considering that SpaceX has actually made it to orbit mul…

Slow and steady wins the race. I'm not counting them out, Bezos is so immensely wealthy that if he wants Blue Origin to succeed then it will succeed.

The moral of the tortise and the hare fable is that the hare lost because he took breaks. He lost despite having a faster top speed not because of it.

Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by tayo42 »

joshsyn wrote: post #23
krapp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Call them what you want. They pushed the world forward, period.

Going to the moon again is pushing the world forward? Why? Humans got there and there's been no reason to go back

Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by Retric »

paxys wrote: post #25
FreakyT wrote: post #3

It's really a shame what has happened to Blue Origin. They've gone from a promising space startup to yet another purveyor of perpetual vaporware. Where is the BE-4 engine? Delayed, again and again. New Glenn, the rocket that could actually go into orbit? Same. So far their only functioning hardware (New Shephard) is, in effect, a glorified amusement park ride. Considering that SpaceX has actually made it to orbit mul…

Everything SpaceX is successfully launching today was similarly delayed during development. It's too early to write off Blue Origin, especially since Bezos just got involved in it full time.

Blue Origin was founded in 2000, SpaceX 2002. SpaceX achieved orbit in 2008. Blue Origin is still sub orbital yet planning on a moon mission.

At this point Bezos might be better off starting over with a new team.

Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by cratermoon »

joshsyn wrote: post #23
krapp wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Call them what you want. They pushed the world forward, period.

They have certainly pushed the world. Whether the direction we're going is 'forward' is extremely debatable. It certainly might look that way from certain positions, but not all points of view agree, and there's no clear way to determine which should be privileged.

Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by jexe »

pmoriarty wrote: post #7

Why can't they cooperate instead of compete? It's not like they don't already have all the money they'd ever need or could use, and wouldn't the world be better off if they worked together than against each other?

Having some competition is probably the best way to make space companies work efficiently, cheaply, and reliably, so these two egomaniacs fighting it out in a space race might be the best possible thing for progress in the industry.

Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by [deleted] »

paxys wrote: post #25
FreakyT wrote: post #3

It's really a shame what has happened to Blue Origin. They've gone from a promising space startup to yet another purveyor of perpetual vaporware. Where is the BE-4 engine? Delayed, again and again. New Glenn, the rocket that could actually go into orbit? Same. So far their only functioning hardware (New Shephard) is, in effect, a glorified amusement park ride. Considering that SpaceX has actually made it to orbit mul…

Everything SpaceX is successfully launching today was similarly delayed during development. It's too early to write off Blue Origin, especially since Bezos just got involved in it full time.

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Re: Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX

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Post by mastrsushi »

Retric wrote: post #33
paxys wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything SpaceX is successfully launching today was similarly delayed during development. It's too early to write off Blue Origin, especially since Bezos just got involved in it full time.

Blue Origin was founded in 2000, SpaceX 2002. SpaceX achieved orbit in 2008. Blue Origin is still sub orbital yet planning on a moon mission. At this point Bezos might be better off starting over with a new team.

You sound like a Sunday golf narrator.
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