Blue Origin First Flight

The first flight of Blue Origin's Goddard test rocket, the precursor to their New Shepard suborbital passenger vehicle. On this flight, on November 13, 2006, the rocket went to a height of 285 feet and then landed right back on its launch pad - not bad at all for the first test flight. Blue Origin is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com. Oh, and they're hiring.

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[x1berserk]

how can u say, nasa is wasting money funding this?

the usa government would spend like 10times more on there military to kill ppl and to defend,

there should b no budget for space exploration. if it wasnt for science we wuldnt have shit

[robotguy]

NASA isn't spending any money on this, and indeed NASA has nothing to do with it at all. Jeff Bezos is financing it all himself.

[Ratzaroony]

Whats the propulsion system on this thing? It doesn't look like it's burning anything...

[robotguy]

kerosene and peroxide. If they were flying at night you'd see long trails of blue exhaust

[WalleyTV]

WTF, how could you tell on a low quality FLASH VIDEO on youtube. Check out ALL of the other camera views of this test flight to the right, are they all fake too? We can get a C-130 into the air why not this?

[DrivinWest]

It's not fake.

[cljohnston108]

This was 5 years ago? How come I never heard anybody talk about it until now?

[CDennis402]

@robotguy WRONG The company was awarded $3.7 million in funding in 2009 by NASA via a Space Act Agreement.

[scouttroop291]

@moya138 yep dam the kids got in to the tool box i think its cool but where its going ???

[moya138]

Again not a new idea i saw a better advanced type in the 60s.

[MrSrgj]

August 24, 2011 crashed Blue Origin.

[banpreso]

all the money spent on this and you can't afford a HD video camcorder?

[mercanaries3]

@x1berserk

You're retarded did you even read the actual story?? NASA had nothing to do with this project

[GrigoriZhukov]

@DeVizardofOZ This is 5 year old video of a proof of concept. so DUH of course it wont go to orbit. SSTO has been viable since DCX (a Burt Rutan design iirc) so what is your problem? Big dumb phallic symbol rockest SUCK ASS and are not as safe.

[DeVizardofOZ]

this thing will not get anyone into LEO. The competition has to use rockets with boosters, while this thing goes in one piece out and comes back as is... I do not believe it.

[spacegeek5]

@Totenkopf6 you are so correct if we really cared we would have landed on mars around 1980 but now it is planned for 2030 thats just terrible. we probably will get delayed and not have a base till 2060 unless spacex does something about it.