blue-origin-is-a-hollywood-boxoffice-hit-bob-zimmerman mp3

John Batchelor april 5, 2016
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Blue Origin Is a Hollywood Boxoffice Hit! Bob Zimmerman, Behindtheblack.com.

“New Shepard flies again, for the third time. The competition heats up: On Saturday Blue Origin successfully launched and landed its reusable New Shepard suborbital capsule/rocket spacecraft.

“The vehicle lifted off from the company’s test site shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern time, according to a series of tweets by company founder Jeff Bezos. The vehicle’s propulsion module, the same one that flew earlier test flights in November and January, made a successful powered landing, he said. Its crew capsule, flying without people on board, parachuted to a safe landing. … The vehicle reached a peak altitude of nearly 103.4 kilometers, slightly above the “von Karman line” frequently used as the boundary of space and similar to previous test flights.

“This flight also carried some science experiments, demonstrating that Blue Origin’s customers will not be limited merely to space tourists.”

http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/new-shepard-flies-again-for-the-third-time/