Posted on Nov 24, 2015
A historic space flight occurred yesterday: Who is ready to take a trip into space?
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Blue Origin, the private space firm owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has just dropped a huge, unexpected gauntlet in the race to develop a reusable rocket. It just launched its New Shepard space vehicle (video, below) consisting of a BE-3 rocket and crew capsule to a suborbital height of around 100.5 kilometers (62 miles). The capsule then separated and touched down beneath a parachute, but more importantly, the BE-3 rocket also started its own descent. After the rockets fired at nearly 5,000 feet, it made a a controlled vertical landing at a gentle 4.4 mph.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/24/blue-origin-reusable-rocket-landing/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/24/blue-origin-reusable-rocket-landing/
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If my spine was up to it, I think it would be wonderful to travel to space CPO Andy Carrillo, MS.
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CPO Andy Carrillo, MS
I saw the capsule land in a huge puff of dust and I'm thinking, "Dang, there are some cracked eggs in THAT carton!" Now, if Japanese crash bags deploy 1 second before impact I might be fine with the terra firma landing.
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