One of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.
One of the things that I’m very excited about with New Shepard, which is our suborbital tourism vehicle, is using that to get a lot of practice. One of the equilibria that we’re at today with space launch is that we don’t get to practice enough.
With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.
You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it’s going to become multiplanetary, or it’s going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there’s going to be an extinction event.
We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.
In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.
Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
I don’t know all the future steps, but I know one of them: we need to build a low-cost, highly operable, reusable launch vehicle. No matter which path we take, it has to include that gate, and so that’s why that’s Blue Origin’s mission.
We will have to leave this planet, and we’re going to leave it, and it’s going to make this planet better.
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