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Although it’s ‘insane’ to try and land New Glenn, Bezos said it’s important to try (arstechnica.com)

submitted 5 days ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Launch looks set for 10pm PT / 1am ET will watch on NSF live stream

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[–] satanmat 3 points 5 days ago

https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-1

[–] Hayduke -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

He and I have vastly different ideas of problems we consider "important" to solve.

[–] Bimfred 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They shouldn't try to land their reusable rocket as early as possible? Kinda not conducive to the whole idea of being reusable, don't you think?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

They need to solve reuse to start to compete with SpaceX, so it's important if they want to start thinking about money.