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    Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

    http://news.yahoo.com/jeff-bezos-spa...224354954.html

    VAN HORN, Texas (AP) — An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.
    The vehicle became unstable at 45,000 feet (13,700 meters) and ground controllers had to terminate it as a precaution. Additional details about what went wrong were not released.

    Bezos founded Blue Origin to develop a vertical takeoff and landing rocketship that would fly passengers to suborbital space. It recently won money from NASA to compete to go into orbit as a space taxi now that the space shuttle fleet is retired.

    The mishap occurred during a test flight last week from Blue Origin's West Texas spaceport. The ultra-secretive company notified the Federal Aviation Administration about the launch and only acknowledged the accident publicly on Friday.The Wall Street Journal, which first reported about the failure, said the test did not use federal funds and was not part of the development agreement with NASA.
    Blue Origin's failure shines a spotlight on the risks of commercial space ventures.....snip~

    Looks Like Not only have we phased out much of NASA but it looks like the private sector is still having difficulties. They won money from NASA to compete in being a space taxi. But even Virgin Galactic has had a problem with one of his test vehicles blowing up and killing 3 pilots. Don't know if we should call them Astronauts tho. Can't we still stick with cabbies?

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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.

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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

    Quote Originally Posted by Conlette View Post
    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.
    Yeah and I am not to found of letting the private sector just roam around up there in the first place. Nor do I think that the Russians do either.
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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

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    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.
    Yeah and I am not to found of letting the private sector just roam around up there in the first place. Nor do I think that the Russians do either.
    That's true too. Already too much space debris up there and sometimes that stuff falls back to Earth instead of burning up completely.

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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

    Quote Originally Posted by Conlette View Post
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    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.
    Yeah and I am not to found of letting the private sector just roam around up there in the first place. Nor do I think that the Russians do either.
    That's true too. Already too much space debris up there and sometimes that stuff falls back to Earth instead of burning up completely.
    Yeah I think they had a report on it.....that we may need to start thinking about cleaning up what we have in orbit.
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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

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    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.
    Yeah and I am not to found of letting the private sector just roam around up there in the first place. Nor do I think that the Russians do either.
    That's true too. Already too much space debris up there and sometimes that stuff falls back to Earth instead of burning up completely.
    Yeah I think they had a report on it.....that we may need to start thinking about cleaning up what we have in orbit.
    Yeah I don't know who is going to take responsibility for cleaning up all that trash. Maybe we can send up some convicts to pick up the litter like they do on the highways? > ;D

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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

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    Yep, that's why I am not sold on private business being able to step in where NASA got off. It's still too much for them. Look at the Moon landings, NASA pulled that off fifty years ago and still no other country has been able to accomplish that.
    Yeah and I am not to found of letting the private sector just roam around up there in the first place. Nor do I think that the Russians do either.
    That's true too. Already too much space debris up there and sometimes that stuff falls back to Earth instead of burning up completely.
    Yeah I think they had a report on it.....that we may need to start thinking about cleaning up what we have in orbit.
    Yeah I don't know who is going to take responsibility for cleaning up all that trash. Maybe we can send up some convicts to pick up the litter like they do on the highways? > ;D
    I'm on it my brutha we just need soemone to provide us with the means to get up there. I got vacuums up the ying-yang. ;D


    http://news.yahoo.com/space-junk-lit...173155267.html

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up.

    That may mean vacuuming up debris with weird space technology — cosmic versions of nets, magnets and giant umbrellas, according to the chairman of an expert panel that issued a new report on the problem Thursday.
    There are 22,000 objects in orbit that are big enough for officials on the ground to track and countless more smaller ones that could do damage to human-carrying spaceships and valuable satellites. The International Space Station has to move out of the way of debris from time to time.

    "We've lost control of the environment," said retired NASA senior scientist Donald Kessler, who headed the National Academy of Sciences report.....snip~

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    I can't even keep my desk clean...outer space? No thanks ;D Though I guess it could mean more jobs, a good thing for the economy

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    Re: Jeff Bezos' Spaceship Fails During Test Flight.....

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    I can't even keep my desk clean...outer space? No thanks ;D Though I guess it could mean more jobs, a good thing for the economy
    I notice that the MSM didnt report Branson's little mishap with Virgin Galatic.
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    I can't even keep my desk clean...outer space? No thanks ;D Though I guess it could mean more jobs, a good thing for the economy
    I notice that the MSM didnt report Branson's little mishap with Virgin Galatic.
    Which mishap is that? I missed it.

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