Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian

[Admin]

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos once pledged that if his company's first rocket to reach space and land vertically back on Earth survived, he would put it in a museum. He has made good on his word.

Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian : Read more

 

[Brad]

So is this going to be in the "Failed Space Companies" section?

When I say "failed" I mean "failed to launch a single kg to LEO in 20 years and after billions of dollars spent" or "can't reliably launch tourists to space after 20 years and billions of dollars spent". Take your pick. BO is the most disappointing of all of the commercial space companies to this point. So much capital available and so little to show.

 

[ColdBlueFire]

This is the second time I've seen this blatant misdirection on here,

"The New Shepard (booster that) became the world's first launch vehicle to place a payload into space before landing upright on its legs"

SpaceX first successful flight of a Falcon 9, that put a payload into Orbit (keyword) and land on its legs, was December 21, 2015.

Blue Origins first successful flight to the Edge (other keyword) of Space and land its booster upright, was July 20 2021.

By that date, SpaceX had already had 80 successful boosters landings after deploying payloads in Space, in Orbit. Something Blue Origin has not yet accomplished. By no stretch of the imagination has Blue Origin ever been the first at anything except company formation. Please fix your reference material.

 

[billslugg]

This type of error has been frequent on this site. I have taken other writers to task. The only response I've gotten is surprise that I got so upset over it.

 

[ColdBlueFire]

This type of error has been frequent on this site. I have taken other writers to task. The only response I've gotten is surprise that I got so upset over it.

It's the little things like this that turn Nikola Teslas into Thomas Edisons.

 

[billslugg]

My fav thing was how Edison would electrocute animals on stage to prove the dangers of Tesla's AC.

 

[Unclear Engineer]

My fav thing was how Edison would electrocute animals on stage to prove the dangers of Tesla's AC.

Of course, DC can also kill. There is actually a case of a guy being killed by an automobile battery, but that required some highly unusual circumstances that bypassed the resistance of human skin.