#Blue Origin

[multidimensional-trashcan]

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first of:   this blog is satire, i definitely do not wish anyone to die (and i dont believe anything will happen in this case).  

more info: The company “Virgin Galactic” is owned by billionaire Richard Branson and direct competition to Jeff Bezo’s “Blue Origin”. The company’s goal is to develop commercial spacecraft and offer suborbital flights to space tourists. One ticket costs $450,000 and if this first initial flight is successful, the company plans to offer 3 launches per month. This first flight is not a tourist trip for billionaires but a research flight were members of Italian Air Force and National Research Council (of Italy) will conduct 13 experiments in a 90-minute flight. It is the first space research mission of the aforementioned groups.

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#titanic #the titanic #oceangate #virgin galactic #richard branson #jeff bezos #blue origin #destiel meme #destiel news channel #supernatural #spn

[probablyasocialecologist]

Scientists have suspected that space flights could be contributing to climate change even when they don’t utilize traditional CO2-spouting jet fuels. Other particles produced by rockets could be irreversible damage to the ozone layer, according to a new study by University College London, the University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The research, which was published in the journal Earth’s Future, calls for urgent mitigation before the space tourism industry really takes off. “What we really need now is a discussion amongst experts on the best strategy for regulating this rapidly growing industry,” co-author Dr. Eloise Marais said.

This research team found that rocket launches are actually far worse for the planet than your typical flight on an airplane. That’s because the launches give off “black carbon” particles, also known as soot. Black carbon has a climate-warming impact between 460 and 1,500 times stronger than CO2 per unit of mass.

#Blue Origin #SpaceX #space tourism #ozone layer

[asgardian-angel]

Happy 93rd Birthday, Mr. William Shatner

William Shatner and Steve McQueen in "The Defender" (1957)

As Archie Goodwin in "Nero Wulf" (1959)

And of course the iconic Capt. James T Kirk!

And of course, a whole host of miscellaneous memories. 😄

#william shatner #late but still #here's some things i liked him in #ok but for anyone who likes agatha christie go read a nero wulf mystery and for anyone who likes the nero wulf mysteries go watch this #it's seriously SO good and they should have made more than the pilot #the city on the edge of forever #star trek arena #blue origin #blue origin ns18

[memenewsdotcom]

Virgin Galactic first space tourism flight

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#blue origin #business #meme #memes #news #Richard Branson #space #space tourism #SpaceX #suborbital flight #tech #technology #tourism #travel #virgin galactic

[mensministry]

“Orbital Reef” Space Hotel,

Orbital Reef will be the premier mixed-use space station in low Earth orbit for commerce, research, and tourism.

The development will comprise spacious modules with large Earth-facing windows to let travelers soak in views of our planet.

It will also let travelers experience weightlessness and living and working in space.

Numerous amenities for any length of the visit will be available for travelers, as well as medical care and recreation opportunities.

Images courtesy Blue Origin, Sierra Space and Boeing

#art #design #space #space hotel #boutique hotel #orbital reef #blue origin #sierra space #boeing #futuristic #cosmos #cosmic #concept #hotel concept #render

[andmaybegayer]

You literally could not write a better parody of "Space Launch Company owned by idiot tech billionaire" than whatever Blue Origin has been doing for the past *checks notes* TWENTY TWO YEARS? Blue origin has been around since 2000! and they STILL haven't gone orbital! They can't even go suborbital reliably!

#blue origin

[flamebirds-nest]

Why have I not seen anyone mention that one of the billionaires lost in the titanic sub previously took a trip in the Bezos dick rocket?

#titanic #oceangate #blue origin

[spacexfan]

Digital Circus OC it’s name is falcon

(Fun fact: he’s a rocket booster made by SpaceX called the falcon 9)

#digital circus #spacex #nasa #tadc fanart #oc art #digital circus oc #blue origin

[yessoupy]

brb texting all my spacey friends if we can send stomper to mars

#blue origin #nasa

[g4laxy-drag0n]

Why is the EscaPADE mission involved with four whole organizations/companies and none of them post literally anything about the mission

#mars #mars rover #space #for anyone curious the 4 organizations/companies are: #rocket lab #they are the ones building it #berkeley #they are the ones running it #nasa #they are the ones whose idea this all was #blue origin #they are going to launch it

[falconisinstartup]

BE4 Flight Engine #2 on test stand

#blue origin #ula #rocket engine #vulcan #test stand #engineering #aerospace #space #rocket #be-4

[nando161mando]

Jeff #Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket tests in #Texas are emitting so much #methane you can see it from space

#climate #climateCrisis

#jeff bezos #fuck bezos #bezos #blue origin #texas #methane #co2 emissions #co2 #climate #climate change #climate crisis #climate emergency #climate action #climate and environment #climate catastrophe #climate chaos #climate collapse #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #neoliberal capitalism #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #amerika #americans #america

[bowlerhatscience]

Space barons' dreams of space resemble nightmares

[ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] Musk and Bezos Offer Humanity a Grim Future in Space Colonies For Scientific American: A million inhabitants live in the city under the soft pink sky of Mars, just a century after the first robotic probes from Earth visited the Red Planet. They farm and…

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#Blue Origin #commercial spaceflight #decolonizing Mars #Elon Musk #Jeff Bezos #space colonization #SpaceX

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

NASA Selects Blue Origin as Second Artemis Lunar Lander Provider To develop a human landing system for the agency’s Artemis V mission to the Moon, NASA has selected Blue Origin of Kent, Washington. Through Artemis, NASA will explore more of the Moon than ever before, uncovering more scientific discoveries, and preparing for future astronaut missions to Mars. Blue Origin will design, develop, test, and verify its Blue Moon lander to meet NASA’s human landing system requirements for recurring astronaut expeditions to the lunar surface, including docking with Gateway, a space station where crew transfer in lunar orbit. In addition to design and development work, the contract includes one uncrewed demonstration mission to the lunar surface before a crewed demo on the Artemis V mission in 2029. The total award value of the firm-fixed price contract is $3.4 billion. “Today we are excited to announce Blue Origin will build a human landing system as NASA’s second provider to deliver Artemis astronauts to the lunar surface,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “We are in a golden age of human spaceflight, which is made possible by NASA’s commercial and international partnerships. Together, we are making an investment in the infrastructure that will pave the way to land the first astronauts on Mars.” For the Artemis V mission, NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket will launch four astronauts to lunar orbit aboard the Orion spacecraft. Once Orion docks with Gateway, two astronauts will transfer to Blue Origin’s human landing system for about a weeklong trip to the Moon’s South Pole region where they will conduct science and exploration activities. Artemis V is at the intersection of demonstrating NASA’s initial lunar exploration capabilities and establishing the foundational systems to support recurring complex missions in lunar orbit and on the surface as part of the agency’s Moon to Mars exploration approach. Adding another human landing system partner to NASA’s Artemis program will increase competition, reduce costs to taxpayers, support a regular cadence of lunar landings, further invest in the lunar economy, and help NASA achieve its goals on and around the Moon in preparation for future astronaut missions to Mars. The agency previously contracted SpaceX to demonstrate an initial human landing system for the Artemis III mission. Under that contract, the agency also directed SpaceX to evolve its design to meet the agency’s requirements for sustainable exploration and to demonstrate the lander on Artemis IV. As a result of the contract with Blue Origin to demonstrate on Artemis V a lander that meets these same sustainable lander requirements, including capabilities for increased crew size, longer mission duration, and delivery of more mass to the Moon, multiple providers will be available to compete for future opportunities to fulfill NASA’s lunar surface access needs for Artemis missions. By supporting industry’s development of innovative human landing system concepts and designs, NASA will help increase access to space for the benefit of all. “Having two distinct lunar lander designs, with different approaches to how they meet NASA's mission needs, provides more robustness and ensures a regular cadence of Moon landings,” said Lisa Watson-Morgan, manager, Human Landing System Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “This competitive approach drives innovation, brings down costs, and invests in commercial capabilities to grow the business opportunities that can serve other customers and foster a lunar economy.” NASA issued the solicitation, known as Appendix P, of its second Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships Broad Agency Announcement (Next-STEP2 BAA), in September 2022 as part of the ongoing development of advanced space exploration technologies, capabilities, and concepts. Through Artemis, NASA will send astronauts – including the first woman and first person of color – to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for crewed missions to Mars. Together, the SLS rocket, Orion, Gateway, advanced spacesuits, and human landing systems are NASA’s foundation for deep space exploration.

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #nasa #moon #blue origin

[kuramirocket]

Katya Echazarreta was student of the year at San Diego City College in 2016

A San Diego City College alumna who has dreamed of exploring the cosmos since she was a child learned Monday that her wish will come true during a mission in which she will become the first Mexico-born woman to travel in space.

Katya Echazarreta was one of six people chosen to participate in a sub-orbital flight that will be staged by Blue Origin. 

Blue Origin officials say the 26 year-old Echazarreta, who has considerable experience as an electrical engineer, will serve as a citizen science astronaut on behalf of Space for Humanity.

“The news is out. I’m going to space,” she said Monday during a brief, giddy video on TikTok.

The date of the mission has yet to be set.

The crew will travel aboard New Shepard.

As her many followers on TikTok and YouTube know, Echazarreta was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and later moved to San Diego, where she attended San Diego City College. She was named student of the year there in 2016. Echazarreta transferred to UCLA and earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She is finishing a Master’s program in engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Her resume also includes work as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she helped support such missions as the Mars Perseverance Rover, and the upcoming Europa Clipper trip to Jupiter.

She is better known to many as the host of the YouTube series Netflix IRL and as Electric Kat on Mission Unstoppable.

Echazarreta also promotes STEM education, especially on TikTok, where she subtly cheers people on by showing herself working through engineering problems. In one post, she sat at a work table and said, “Engineering can be really frustrating at times. It can feel like no matter you love the field, sometimes it just doesn’t love you back.

“But I’ve realized something recently. I’ve started to love those moments where nothing seems to be working, because I know what comes next. The moment where I finally figure it out.”

#🇲🇽 #Katya Echazarreta #STEM #science #astronomy #mexico #mexican #latina #hispanic #Blue Origin #Space for Humanity #New Shepard #amazon #jeff bezos #NASA #Jet Propulsion Laboratory #Mars Perseverance Rover #Europa Clipper #engineering #electrical engineering

[claudiosuenaga]

O que anda errado no espaço?

“Tudo o que vi foi a morte” (William Shatner) Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

Como se atesta nesta reportagem de Frank Wood publicada na revista Fatos e Fotos Gente (Rio de Janeiro, Bloch Editores, ano VI, nº 295, 1966-09-24), desde o início da corrida espacial a maioria dos astronautas descreve suas viagens ao espaço não como algo diáfano ou divino, longe disso, mas como algo perturbador, desagradável, desolador e deprimente, e muitos deles, incluindo os que integraram a Missão Apollo 11, que desembarcou na Lua, tiveram sérios problemas psicológicos que os levaram a afastar-se e isolar-se de tudo, renegando mesmo seus heroísmos e a glória de um triunfo reservado a uns poucos "escolhidos" e privilegiados. Ir ao espaço acaba sendo uma experiência transformadora, proporcionadora da consciência de nossa fragilidade e pequenez perante o Universo, desencadeadora de sérias crises existenciais que levam a questionamentos a respeito de tudo e até da noção de Deus.

A confirmar isso, o ator William Shatner, que desembolsou uma fortuna para embarcar em um voo suborbital no ano passado pela empresa de turismo espacial Blue Origin, de Jeff Bezos, experimentou o mesmo fenômeno ao desviar o olhar da Terra para a extensão negra do cosmos: “Tudo o que vi foi a morte”, disse ele em sua biografia chamada Boldly Go, que ele co-escreveu com o escritor de TV e cinema Joshua Brandon.

Ou seja, algo totalmente distinto do que ele fazia os espectadores imaginarem em sua memorável passagem como o Capitão Kirk da nave estelar Enterprise no seriado Star Trek e em vários filmes da franquia nas décadas seguintes.

“Vi um vazio frio, escuro e negro. Era diferente de qualquer escuridão que você possa ver ou sentir na Terra. Era profundo, envolvente, abrangente. Voltei-me para a luz de casa. Pude ver a curvatura da Terra, o bege do deserto, o branco das nuvens e o azul do céu. Era a vida. Nutrir, sustentar, viver. Mãe Terra. Gaia. E eu a estava deixando”, diz ele em um outro trecho de Boldly Go, lançado em 4 de outubro último pela editora Simon & Schuster.

“Tudo o que eu pensava estava errado, tudo o que eu esperava ver estava errado”, admitiu Shatner, no alto de seus 91 anos. Não é para nos deixar pensativos e estupefatos, ainda mais vindo de um ator que pelo papel que desempenhara durante toda a vida deveria transmitir uma impressão positiva da experiência de ir para o espaço?

O ator William Shatner no papel de Capitão Kirk da série clássica Star Trek, dos anos 60, e com o uniforme de voo espacial da Blue Origin.

O fato é que o espaço é um lugar frio e hostil, e o que seria para ser o céu, está mais para o inferno. O espaço é tido como a "fronteira final", o que está na fala, inclusive, da abertura de Star Trek, e é o título de um dos filmes, não por acaso aquele famigerado V, de 1989, dirigido pelo próprio Shatner, em que a tripulação vai em busca de Deus, isso mesmo, ou seja, a dimensão que falta a ser conquistada para que Deus seja desbancado.

A intenção de Ninrode e seus seguidores de construir uma torre, a de Babel, que tocasse nos céus literalmente, era um desafio a Deus, que não se agradou nenhum pouco disso e, como na Antiguidade, continua sempre frustrando os intentos arrogantes dos homens: "E disseram: Eia, edifiquemos nós uma cidade e uma torre cujo cume toque nos céus, e façamo-nos um nome, para que não sejamos espalhados sobre a face de toda a terra." (Gênesis 11:4).

Desde o advento da Era Científico-Tecnológica, a pretensão do homem é ainda maior, a de dominar o Universo e explorá-lo sem nenhuma fronteira, tomando mesmo o lugar de Deus.

Se por causa desse orgulho, Deus puniu os homens da época confundindo suas linguagens e os dispersando pela terra, o que fará com os de hoje, que demonstram uma arrogância que não vê nenhum limite no cosmos ou para o quer que seja? Que fizeram do espaço até um motivo para negócio?

Parece-me que não é por acaso ou por mera conjunção de arranjos físico-químicos e combinações de matéria, que o espaço para além da atmosfera da Terra seja tão desfavorável à vida como a conhecemos, como que para reforçar a noção de que somos a única espécie inteligente em toda a enormidade e infinitude do Universo, e que o nosso planeta, portanto, é o único capaz de sustentar vida.

Todos os dispendiosos e onerosos projetos em relação a exploração do espaço, soam assim como um tremendo desperdício, já que não há nada lá fora, a não ser a morte, como bem sublinhou Shatner.

"Ora, ninguém subiu ao céu, senão o que desceu do céu, o Filho do homem, que está no céu." (João 3:13)

#nasa #espaço sideral #cosmos #universo #star trek #william shatner #jeff bezos #blue origin #religião #astronautics