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louis

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Blue Origin test flight

Brilliant test flight of the New Shepard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEfOg5r2r4

Shame that Bezos doesn't seem interested in Mars...or maybe not so, given the way Amazon treats its staff.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

Elon Musk trolls Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin again over Human Landing System
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/ … ing-system

tahanson43206

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

BusinessFinancial Times
Jeff Bezos to go to space after stepping down at Amazon

Mr. Bezos is (apparently) planning to fly on his own vehicle. 

If he succeeds (and survives) I would think that would be a winning round in his competition with Musk.

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Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18381944/ … ezos-feud/

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

Blue Origin reveals its orbital maneuvering vehicle: Blue Ring
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-blue-reve … hicle.html

7-minute video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9EyCVb4HAw

When Blue Origin won the contract to land astronauts on the moon, it took me while to wrap my head around what they were proposing. Turns out I needed help from our excellent graphics team, which put together this animation. If Blue Moon and SpaceX's Starship can master the art of propellant storage and transfer, it could really open up some interesting possibilities
https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/statu … 8258068983

Blue Origin Shows Off a Mockup of Its Blue Moon Lunar Lander
https://uk.pcmag.com/travel-how-to/1493 … nar-lander

the business of entertainment media and other investments

Bezos Expeditions is an American investment firm, Bezos Expeditions funded the recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean
https://web.archive.org/web/20190402165 … or/274204/

News media The Washington Post, also known as the Post and, informally, WaPo, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C  transferring ownership to Nash Holdings LLC, Bezos's private investment company, the newspaper hired Jamal Khashoggi as a columnist. In 2018, Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents in Istanbul. In the vast majority of U.S. elections, for federal, state, and local office, the Post editorial board has endorsed Democratic candidates.

who wants to live forever?

Immortality quest, fighting the human condition of age, Altos Labs, Inc. is an American biotechnology research company. Altos Labs' goal is to develop life extension therapies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220126201 … ltos-labs/

In January 2023, Amazon announced the launch of RXPass, a prescription drug delivery service. It allows US Amazon Prime members to pay a $5 monthly fee for access to 60 medications.

Amazon Prime Video for Tv and other Movie entertainings

‘Rings Of Power’ a Massive Flop? there is also gaming for a brand or franchise

The Lord of the Rings: Return To Moria PlayStation 5 Version Delayed
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/479133/ … n-delayed/

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SpaceNut

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

Nasa asked for quite a few changes to the first attempt to gain the contract that space x had won.

https://www.blueorigin.com/blue-moon

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/n … nn-rocket/

SpaceNut

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Re: Blue Origin test flight

NASA is aware of the risk of launching a real science mission on the first flight of a new rocket. But this mission, known by the acronym ESCAPADE, is relatively low cost. The Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission has a budget of approximately $79 million, significantly less than any mission NASA has sent to Mars in recent history.

ESCAPADE is part of a new class of small planetary science missions in which scientists can propose concepts for modest probes to explore the solar system. The relatively low cost of these missions allows NASA to accept some additional risk. The agency wouldn't be comfortable putting a billion-dollar Mars mission on any unproven rocket.

Because it's going to Mars, ESCAPADE has a relatively narrow window to get off the ground next year. Documents on the mission presented at public meetings earlier this year indicated it had a launch window in August 2024, but Smith said Monday that the mission is now set to fly "around this time next year."

Rob Lillis, the mission's principal investigator from the University of California Berkeley’s Space Science Laboratory, wrote on social media in April that the August 2024 launch window is "approximate and provisional." He said engineers were still working on different trajectory options for ESCAPADE. Those options range from deploying the satellites into an orbit around Earth, then using their own propulsion to head for Mars, or a launch directly to the red planet.

The heavy-lift New Glenn rocket should have more than enough capability to send the two ESCAPADE satellites, each a little more than a half-ton in mass, on a direct-to-Mars trajectory. Mars launch windows typically come every 26 months, so if ESCAPADE isn't off the ground in late 2024, the next launch opportunity would be in late 2026. ESCAPADE was originally assigned to launch as a secondary payload on a Falcon Heavy rocket with NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, which took off in October, but NASA removed ESCAPADE from the launch because it would not provide the mission with the proper trajectory.

Since then, engineers redesigned the ESCAPADE mission to take advantage of a larger spacecraft platform built by Rocket Lab, which provides additional propulsive capability. In February, NASA announced the launch contract with Blue Origin for ESCAPADE to fly on one of the early New Glenn missions. Now, this Mars mission has moved up in the queue to be first in line on the New Glenn manifest.

Wow seems that all we need for a GW mission is just a small amount $79 million to get to mars orbit.