Bezos to send Blue Origin to the stars
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Jeff Bezos’s next act after Amazon: Getting his space company, Blue Origin, off the ground
>Bezos is a huge Star Trek fan, who had a cameo in the movie “Star Trek Beyond” and named a dog and a company after Star Trek characters.
>At first, Blue Origin was just a handful of people, including Stephenson, working in an industrial Seattle warehouse to see if there was any way to get to space other than using chemically fueled rockets. After studying several alternatives — even a massive whip that would fling objects into space — they decided that rockets were the best option, as long as they could be reused.
>The company is getting close to flying its first humans to the edge of space and back on its suborbital vehicle New Shepard, named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, whose 15-minute trip to space also went straight up and down. And it hopes to fly its massive New Glenn rocket to orbit this year, though that may very well slip into next year. That vehicle is named for John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit.
>It also is developing a spacecraft that would ferry astronauts to and from the surface of the moon — a project of particular interest for Bezos, who’s called the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 a “seminal moment” for him when he watched it at age 5.
>On Tuesday, Blue Origin announced it had built a full-scale prototype of part of the lunar lander that would land on the moon, known as the descent element. The company is planning a test mission of its lunar lander spacecraft to the moon, without crews on board, ahead of a human landing there as part of NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to establish a permanent presence on and around the moon. To build the lander, Blue Origin has teamed up with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, to form what it calls the “national team.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/09/amazon-bezos-blue-origin/
>Bezos is a huge Star Trek fan, who had a cameo in the movie “Star Trek Beyond” and named a dog and a company after Star Trek characters.
>At first, Blue Origin was just a handful of people, including Stephenson, working in an industrial Seattle warehouse to see if there was any way to get to space other than using chemically fueled rockets. After studying several alternatives — even a massive whip that would fling objects into space — they decided that rockets were the best option, as long as they could be reused.
>The company is getting close to flying its first humans to the edge of space and back on its suborbital vehicle New Shepard, named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space, whose 15-minute trip to space also went straight up and down. And it hopes to fly its massive New Glenn rocket to orbit this year, though that may very well slip into next year. That vehicle is named for John Glenn, the first American to reach orbit.
>It also is developing a spacecraft that would ferry astronauts to and from the surface of the moon — a project of particular interest for Bezos, who’s called the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 a “seminal moment” for him when he watched it at age 5.
>On Tuesday, Blue Origin announced it had built a full-scale prototype of part of the lunar lander that would land on the moon, known as the descent element. The company is planning a test mission of its lunar lander spacecraft to the moon, without crews on board, ahead of a human landing there as part of NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to establish a permanent presence on and around the moon. To build the lander, Blue Origin has teamed up with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, to form what it calls the “national team.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/09/amazon-bezos-blue-origin/
