Blue Origins rocket explodes during test

[mike]

Wild. Quite an explosion.

[barnhart]

"we experienced an anomaly..."

[JohnL]

"we experienced an anomaly..."

Ranks right up there with “Houston we have a problem.”

[mike]

"we experienced an anomaly..."

Apparently, Blue Origin's only launchpad also got accidentally deleted by the anomaly.

[JohnH]

Perhaps Blue Origin should try to hire some SpaceX engineers.

[Soloist]

Perhaps Blue Origin should try to hire some SpaceX engineers.

I believe Spacex followed the age old practice of if you first don’t succeed try try try try try… try… try again.
Nothing to see here, just another rapid disassembly of a Lego set by an adult with too much money!

[JohnL]

If I recall rightly this rocket was supposed to be a part of the Artemis moon colony project. Bezos who owns Amazon.com has been doing rockets for awhile. He sent up Capt Kirk (William Shatner) for a quick ride in space. Do you reckon Bezos wants the exclusive rights to take supplies to the moon colony? Will there be free delivery if the supplies are $35 or more?

[Grace]

Perhaps Blue Origin should try to hire some SpaceX engineers.

Perhaps the Blue Origin and Space X engineers need to take the gazillions used for their foolishness and use it for something wiser, other than going to wherever they are attempting to go and use that money to help people who live on the inhabitable planet God made for us.

[Judas Maccabeus]

For developing a rocket of this size and level of innovation, this is par for the course. How many Vanguard rockets blew up in the 50s before they got one to work?

[JohnH]

For developing a rocket of this size and level of innovation, this is par for the course. How many Vanguard rockets blew up in the 50s before they got one to work?

It was par for the course before SpaceX figured out how to drastically cut down on the cost of launches.

The military-industrial complex didn't used to care because they got paid whether it blew up or not, and they'd simply pass the billion-dollar price tags on to the government.