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This does not mean that Musk will not be there first.

Assuming I ever retire on mars, I am undecided on which Billionaire I want to be running my HOA

1 posted on 11/22/2023 6:48:03 PM PST by algore
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To: algore

Bezos seems to be 700 years behind Musk at this point. I wonder who he offered a free membership to Amazon Prime?


2 posted on 11/22/2023 6:49:43 PM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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it will send two scientific spacecraft to the Red Planet aboard the first Blue Origin New Glenn rocket in August 2024

Good luck. Tell me again about the first successful test flight of the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket?

3 posted on 11/22/2023 6:51:36 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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It's a good thing to have multiple vendors capable of providing launch capabilities - problem is that Blue Origin's New Glenn has never launched yet, and there's a very real possibility that it will not launch in 2024, either.


4 posted on 11/22/2023 6:52:50 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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You’re too late. Sheila Jackson Lee will already be there. After all she knew that the astronauts landed on mars years ago.


9 posted on 11/22/2023 6:59:24 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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The woke idiots at NASA have to send contracts to Blue Orifice now. LOL. Musk, like him or not, is so far ahead of Blue Orifice it’s not even funny.


10 posted on 11/22/2023 7:02:17 PM PST by ChuckHam
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So let me get this straight.

A: The corrupt, left-leaning US Government hates Elon Musk because he flipped the script on their censorship, among other reasons.

B: NASA, an uber-woke division of the US Government, chose Musk’s competitor Bezos in a supposed engineering competition.

C: Competitor Bezos just happens to own the biggest “news” organization in the government’s capital city.

Where’s the surprise? I’m not convinced the choice of Bezos over Musk had ONE DAMN THING to do with technical prowess, or even business continuity. I think it is politics, pure and simple.


11 posted on 11/22/2023 7:04:05 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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Will free returns apply?


12 posted on 11/22/2023 7:06:04 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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How much did this choice have to do with Musk’s politics?


15 posted on 11/22/2023 7:08:09 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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How much did this choice have to do with Musk’s politics?


16 posted on 11/22/2023 7:08:51 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Totally a political decision. Totally politics.

17 posted on 11/22/2023 7:14:00 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Bezos has not even got his “new glenn” rocket to the launch pad to even test anything. And nasa wants to launch on it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣


25 posted on 11/22/2023 7:46:28 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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Blue Origin, by itself, will probably never get to buy a Mars Candy Bar. Bezos is trying to purchase an entirely different rocket company, United Launch Alliance (ULA). ULA has a proven launch record. I can just see Bezos slapping a Blue Origin label on the ULA rockets and calling Blue Origin a success.

Bezos just fired the top Blue Origin exec. The just-fired exec spent 4 years launching nothing while SpaceX has more launches than most countries combined. SpaceX has not just proven reusability, they have mastered it.

To demonstrate the success and cost efficiency of SpaceX, the European Space Alliance (ESA) has contracted 4 satellite launches with SpaceX. Not Blue Origin, SpaceX. ESA is so mired in bureaucracy, they cannot launch their own rockets and satellites.

The only thing holding back SpaceX from being much further along with Starship is the Hussein/Biden Regime. Besides the FAA and the FCC, The Regime even has the Federal Fish & Wildlife Administration slowing down SpaceX. Disgusting.

In one of the most hilarious nuisance lawsuits brought by The Regime, they accused SpaceX of not hiring foreigners. Since SpaceX has very serious technology, only citizens are allowed to get near. When the suit was presented in court, the judge basically stated What The ??? and dismissed the suit.


26 posted on 11/22/2023 7:46:34 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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WAPO/Bezos = CIA/Swamp outlet.


27 posted on 11/22/2023 7:52:23 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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Blue Origin?
Will never happen, IMHO...


28 posted on 11/22/2023 7:58:12 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: algore

Bezos has been doing skyhops, nothing orbital.


29 posted on 11/22/2023 7:58:30 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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However, the space agency pulled the additional crafts from the launch because the Falcon Heavy would not put them on the proper trajectory to insert them into Mars' orbit.

There's no later Falcon Heavy launch that might be available?

30 posted on 11/22/2023 8:05:16 PM PST by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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Punishment for Musk and what he has done with twitter.


42 posted on 11/22/2023 8:47:43 PM PST by Revel
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Musk doesn’t need NASA. NASA needs Musk. They also still need the Russians.


47 posted on 11/22/2023 10:45:42 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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What rocket? Bezos has never even launched a rocket into space.


50 posted on 11/23/2023 4:35:33 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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NASA chose Bezos because of Musk. It’s one of those bad decisions like technically capable least cost.


51 posted on 11/23/2023 4:46:45 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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