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Ten Forward / Re: The USS Jerseyprise voyages.
« Last post by Starfox1701 on September 14, 2024, 02:26:57 pm »What in the name of Zeus' woolly white butt hole did i just listen too?
Blue Origin has been practicing deploying the New Glenn landing legs and a barge has been seen that is believed to be the landing location for the New Glenn
booster (if it even flies this year - officially Sept 29th).
NASA delays ESCAPADE Mars launch on Blue Origin's giant New Glenn rocket to 2025 to avoid potential cost overruns
There are apparently contingency plans to send up the next Crew Dragon with only 2 crew to return the Starliner Astronauts. I haven't seen anything that says whether they would stay up for the entire planned mission of the crew men they are to replace on the return or if the ISS will be understaffed (or if some of the current crew would stay longer). Details of this "plan" (if real) are lacking.
Best of luck to the astronauts.
(Bloomberg) -- Blue Origin LLC sustained failures in recent weeks of testing including a factory mishap that damaged a portion of a future New Glenn rocket, the long-awaited centerpiece of the Jeff Bezos-backed startup’s push to take on SpaceX.
The upper portion of one rocket crumpled into itself, in part due to worker error, while it was being moved to a storage hangar, according to people familiar with the situation. In a separate incident, another upper rocket portion failed during stress testing and exploded, the people said. Repairs are underway, another person said, noting there were no injuries during either episode.
The previously unreported incidents illustrate the hurdles Blue Origin is grappling with while ramping up production of New Glenn, which is four years overdue. At the same time, new Chief Executive Officer Dave Limp has hired a slate of executives to shake the company out of a years-long R&D slump.