13 thoughts on “Congrats To Blue Origin”

    1. There was a distinct difference between the cringy pep rally, surprised they didn’t have dancers, at the beginning and the genuine roar at the end.

  3. Congrats Blue Origin. A job well done! Beautiful landing, can’t wait to see the footage of the booster hovering.

  4. Third, Blue Origin’s announcers were once again annoying, distracting, ignorant, and childishly emotional.

    Which is why I watch these things with the sound disabled. Too many people seem to think that their voice will improve any video.

    Maybe these streaming services need to have multiple sound channels, to be mixed by the viewer.

    1. SpaceX had a separate ‘technical feed’ in years past that skipped the commentary and just played audio from the launch net. It was good.

  5. What a great flight that was! I watched Everyday Astronaut’s feed, and found it every bit as exciting as he did. Bezos has brought in a lot of new, and really good technical people in Huntsville, and it shows. (My wife has observed that first hand) From my own interaction with Bezos, he knows what the kind of space transportation system is required to support his space economic model, but until recently, he hadn’t had the kind of people who could implement that system. Relocating from Seattle to Huntsville was a transformational (if reluctant) move – but my wife has observed the effect first-hand.. Now Blue has a lot of people who know how to produce launch vehicles in its employ, and as a bonus, none of them riot in their free time.

  7. As far as I could tell, it was a perfect flight. It will be interesting to find out if there was anything in the first stage that needs improving before the next flight. Until yesterday, no one but SpaceX and to a much lesser degree Rocket Lab has had the opportunity to inspect an intact first stage after a mission. SpaceX learned a lot from their post flight inspections and incorporated many improvements in their Block V version. Rocket Lab recovered a few Electrons but apparently has given up on reusability for it, but I’m sure they incorporated many lessons learned into Neutron. I wonder what, if anything, Blue will find on this booster.

  8. Been really busy this week so I haven’t followed as closely as I normally would. But from what others here have posted that I trust all I’ll say for now is “Go Blue”!

  9. All I have heard is “they landed the booster”. Did the payload get launched into the right trajectory? I haven’t seen one report where that was mentioned. I suppose no news is good news.

  10. Amazing accomplishment. Good for BO and good for the USA.

    Some people say they didn’t do any test flights but others might say that SpaceX did a lot of testing for them.

    A bit of trivia about Jeff Bezos that you guys might enjoy. On the Amazon devices, Bezos is autocorrected to Besos. Kisses from Jeff, good sense of humor.

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