Watch Bezos’ New Shepard Launch Vehicle Take One Small Step For Future Space Travel - Polidicks

[QUOTE] [video=youtube;NANePoo_p30]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NANePoo_p30[/video] There hasn't been much coming from Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, one of the companies NASA selected to develop future manned space vehicles. But this new video provides a glimpse of their New Shepard vehicle taking off and landing vertically. Unlike traditional methods of putting humans into space which usually involve booster rockets that fall back to Earth when their fuel is spent, the New Shepard is designed to return to the pad under its own power, after launching a crew capsule into a sub-orbital flight path. The brief launch and landing test seen here was originally conducted at the Blue Origin facilities in Texas back in May, before the vehicle was lost in a subsequent test after crews lost communications after launch. Named after Alan Shepard, the New Shepard is designed to test the feasibility of a reusable booster rocket that will in theory drastically reduce the cost of putting humans, or payloads, into orbit. It's part of NASA's ongoing efforts to find a cost-effective replacement to the Space Shuttle that will allow them to send astronauts, equipment and supplies to the space station. But given how much they can charge for a ticket, using it for space tourism isn't out of the question either. [[URL="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/11/blue-origin-short-hop-test/"]Wired[/URL] via [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/19/bezos-new-shepard-takes-off-and-escorts-itself-back-to-the-land/"]Engadget[/URL]] [B]RELATED STORIES[/B][h=3][URL="http://gizmodo.com/5860685/how-did-they-install-the-most-amazing-window-ever-created-by-humankind"]How Did They Install the Most Amazing Window Ever Created By Humankind[/URL][/h] [/QUOTE]

Holy shit that's amazing that it lands so perfectly and takes off smoothly

I want to fly this to school, daily.

Ahhh, nothing like a good dose of successful science.

Spacebuild, big white gas tank.

wonder why they didn't go with a more horizontal design

[QUOTE=Odellus;33346278]wonder why they didn't go with a more horizontal design[/QUOTE] It's going up, vertically.

[QUOTE=Odellus;33346278]wonder why they didn't go with a more horizontal design[/QUOTE] Irrelevant in space. "Forward" becomes the direction that it's being pushed.

Now, this shows that the Space-X video can be done. WOO SCIENCE

[QUOTE=OvB;33346164]Spacebuild, big white gas tank.[/QUOTE] And gravity plating man with oxygen scrubbers and coolant generators that sound like combustion engines fuck I loved that mod

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What you saw: Space ship What I Saw: Gigantic Space dildo.

[QUOTE=teh pirate;33346537][img]http://images.wikia.com/cortexcommand/images/f/fb/Ccbanner.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Was just about to post that

Very impressive. Makes me sad that such news is sort of hard to come by anywhere but the Internet. It seems as if the public doesn't really care much about the Cosmos anymore.

I bet they used an asston of SAS modules.

[QUOTE=Gubru;33348782]Very impressive. Makes me sad that such news is sort of hard to come by anywhere but the Internet. It seems as if the public doesn't really care much about the Cosmos anymore.[/QUOTE] Yeah, all they care now are their iPhones and why it is so revolutionary.

Is good year for science.