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Post by Bartman on Jul 21, 2021 15:31:05 GMT -5
Watched both flight Replays on YT after they went off. One, I'll give some credit to Branson as at least the Virgin ship has to be manually Flown down from altitude and landed on the runway. As for Bezos' Blue Origin, Big Deal! Both ships just go up past the von Karman line at 100Km and come right back down after a few minutes. Neither ship comes anywhere near Orbital velocity. So What? Meanwhile Elon Musk's SpaceX has launched many commercial satellites in several years now and the Crew Dragon has docked with the ISS and returned. They've also successfully landed their 1st stage boosters nearly 100 times and have re-used many of them after refurbishing. That is Progress!
What Branson and Bezos are doing is just Rich Guys spending Play Money. I don't see either of those flights lasting very long.
As far as the Bezos Bashing going on, I don't care one way or the other. I haven't bought Anything from Amazon in decades. I'm pretty much a confirmed Ebay'er!
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Post by zenwalk on Sept 2, 2021 22:07:49 GMT -5
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