As Christian Davenport recounts in his book The Space Barons, Bezos told Garver at the time, "I want to tell you about my big rocket." Advertisementįurther Reading Jeff Bezos is not screwing around with his plans to colonize space During a meeting in December 2011 with then-NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver, Bezos discussed an orbital rocket capable of challenging SpaceX's Falcon 9 booster. And the company's engineers have-over the last five years, New Shepard successfully completed more than a dozen suborbital missions with picture-perfect rocket landings.īut long before New Shepard took its first flight, Bezos was already deep into planning his next rocket.
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Step one was to learn how to reuse rockets with the much smaller New Shepard launch system, which consists of a single-engine booster and capsule. A fateful decisionĪs part of his overall space strategy, Bezos has been thinking about building a large, reusable orbital rocket for a long time. So what really has gone wrong? Ars spoke with several former employees and industry officials familiar with the company for this story. If successfully developed, it would offer a revolutionary heavy-lift service to low Earth orbit, geostationary space, and even the Moon. "That excuse makes no sense."īlue Origin's New Glenn project is incredibly ambitious. "Who does that?" asked one former employee of the company. As part of its announcement, Blue Origin also did not take much blame for the rocket's delay-instead, the company blamed the delay mostly on a potential customer, the US Department of Defense. Not only did New Glenn not launch in 2020, last week Blue Origin said it would not launch until the fourth quarter of 2022, at the earliest. And then they should meet those projections.īezos' rocket company, of course, did not meet those projections. Blue Origin should be optimistic with its projections, Bezos said. Liftoff is currently set for 8:30 am CT from Launch Site One in West Texas.Further Reading Behind the curtain: Ars goes inside Blue Origin’s secretive rocket factoryīlue Origin founder Jeff Bezos was not present for this, but his response afterward was that he would absolutely not accept any revision to the launch date for the large orbital rocket. You will be able to watch live launch coverage of the William Shatner trip to space on Blue Origin’s October 12th flight on at T-90 minutes. Hell, if I had the opportunity to rocket into space, I’d do it! This is going to be an incredibly cool experience for Shatner and it must be awesome for him to be in a position to do this.
Shatner will join the crew of Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18 flight, whose other passengers will include Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s VP of mission and flight operations, alongside crewmates Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries. I’m taking the opportunity to see it for myself. Yes, it’s true I’m going to be a ‘rocket man!'” Shatner said in a statement provided by Blue Origin, “I’ve heard about space for a long time now.
In a recent tweet Monday, Shatner added, “So now I can say something. At 90-years-old, Shatner will finally go to space for real, and he will become the oldest person to ever rocket into space.īlue Origin is the aerospace company owned by Amazon founder and multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, who already launched into orbit on one of the company’s rockets this past summer. Iconic Star Trek actor William Shatner is officially set to blast off into space with the crew of the Blue Origin on its next flight into space on October 12th.
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