Amazon-funded Spaceship Unveiled

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

Comments

[SFalor]

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? :)

[GoodName]

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.

[GoodName]

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.

[Little genius]

this will be good for the econamie

[Kamagra]

This spaceship and it is amazing that a company like this spend its money in projects like this that help to scientist to find new things.

[conference table]

Amazon.com is not a low weight company. They are has Master in their field. Amazon can do anything whatever possible.

[Bruce]

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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It’s great to know that Jeff Bezos is building a supersecret spacecraft in his remote Texas lair. We can’t get any reference of his company Blue Origin. I am willing to know that what his vehicle looked like or what his grand plan was.

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Its really a big news that he unveiled his very smart-looking spacecraft.

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It really makes you think that you are watching an old scifi movie from the fifties!

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I am sure that Mr. Jeff Bezos will be successful in building this spacecraft & give another amazon to the space world.

[Christmas Island]

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[Danny DeMichele Entrepreneur]

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They are working very hard for this. They've been appropriately cautious and making sure that every step is done correctly. Great job.

[Health News]

I can't believe how much of this I just wasn't aware of. Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. I'm truly grateful and really impressed.

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This spaceship and it is amazing that a company like this spend its money in projects like this that help to scientist to find new things.

[hilda]

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The best video regarding this, is the fisheye video. Next would be the On-board video pointed at the horizon.

[selling a phone]

The MPCV will launch aboard a new heavy-lift rocket that NASA is also developing. I figured I would never have a chance to go into space again!!

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I can't believe how much of this I just wasn't aware of. I heard that someone is building a supersecret spacecraft in his remote Texas lair.

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