Meet New Glenn, the Blue Origin Rocket That May Someday Take You to Space
Marlene Breverman stashed this in Space travel
Blue Origin, the secretive space company created by Jeffrey P. Bezos, offered a look at its newest rocket design on Monday — and, by extension, its ambitions to make space travel more frequent and inexpensive.
The rockets, named New Glenn after John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, are almost as large as the Saturn V rocket that NASA used from 1966 to 1973. CreditBlue Origin
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"The two-stage version that could venture to low-Earth orbit will be 270 feet tall, and the three-stage version, which could fly outside Earth’s orbit, will be 313 feet tall. Both will be 23 feet in diameter, packing seven BE-4 engines, which are developed by Blue Origin, and lifting off with 3.85 million pounds of thrust." Interesting, the larger, three-stage rocket has the same thrust as the smaller.
I guess that's how much thrust it takes to leave our atmosphere.
Is "someday" in 10 years or 50 years?
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12:26 PM Sep 13 2016