We’ve known for a long time that Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has been
building a supersecret spacecraft in his remote Texas lair. We knew the
company was called Blue Origin but didn’t really know what his vehicle
looked like or what his grand plan was, other than to be a part of the
nascent space-tourism business. But this week, a video- and image-rich
bonanza suddenly surfaced on his Web site, cleverly disguised as a
help-wanted ad. The fact that he unveiled his very smart-looking
spacecraft is big news. The fact that he also demonstrated it with a
successful test flight is startling and absolutely historic, given that
nobody else in the current crop of private-sector, dot-com-funded space
entrepreneurs has come anywhere close to test-flying a vehicle of that
scale. The program is called New Shepard, and the first vehicle,
modeled on the McDonnell Douglas DC-X Delta Clipper program from the
early 1990s, is respectfully named Goddard. The first flight, on
November 13, achieved an altitude of 285 feet and landed safely. Look
for more info soon about the technology hidden inside that slick piece
of ice-cream-coney rocketry in the pages of Popular
Science.—Eric Adams
Link via Blue Origin
The best video is the fisheye video. Next would be the On-board video pointed at the horizon.
Makes you think you are watching an old scifi movie from the fifties!
Wow - can't believe we are finally (almost) ready for commercial space flight. Will that be covered under my travel insurance? Will medical insurance providers cover this in 'accidental death' policies? :)
Posted by: SFalor | January 08, 2007 at 02:40 PM
Well, it's about time I see a ship of our near future space travel that is named after Goddard, the father of American rocketry, and not the war criminal vonbrun.
A+ effort in my book, Bezos. I wish your team won the X-prize.
Posted by: GoodName | January 09, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Well, it's about time I see a ship of our near future space travel that is named after Goddard, the father of American rocketry, and not the war criminal vonbrun.
A+ effort in my book, Bezos. I wish your team won the X-prize.
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curiously, the Delta Clipper- Y based on available data (100Klb empty, 23klbpayload, 877klb fuel and 1,200,000 lb of thrust for nominally 290 sec) does not get sufficient delta-V to make it to orbit - the acheived delta-V is just over 6000 mph. Curiously similar to the VentureStar with a similar empty weight to fuel ratio.
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