Comments on: April 15, 2025 Quick space links

By: Dick Eagleson

Dick Eagleson — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:42:54 +0000

My biggest surprise was that Katy Perry was only the third-best-looking woman on the flight – didn’t see that coming.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:09:14 +0000

I thought the New Shepard flight was quite inspiring. Did it move the engineering forward? No. Did it inspire a lot of people to consider space as an option? Certainly. If we really want to open space to everyone, then everyone must go – no matter the order it happens in. The janitor, the teacher, the singer, the engineer, the artist, and the dreamer all have a place in this puzzle. So far 721 people have touched space. For 60 plus years, that is pathetic. We need to send that many (or more) in a month. It will take time but we’ll get there. Unless the space community’s vitriol scares them off (Twitter/X/Threads/Blue Sky have been horrible).

By: Dave in Denver

Dave in Denver — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 23:52:48 +0000

Blue Origin’s New Sheppard flight (4/14) was both amusing and touching. Maybe the one thing we can get out of it was a rather pure reaction of a team representing half of humanity, possibly untrained and genuine. Though the crew were mostly in showbiz and that has its own severe biases.

I think the chatter and screams in the background throughout the flight shared with the viewer a certain thrill of their brief adventure. Can’t say much about the post-flight. I tuned out.