Comments on: Blue Origin delays 1st New Glenn launch again

By: Andrew R

Andrew R — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:24:08 +0000

If Bezos has “handlers”, they’re in the wrong places.. Where were they when he commissioned the building of a $500 M yacht?
The yach is coming along well, by the way, the Dutch know how to build them. Now he just has to find the people who know how to build rockets & engines, and let them loose.

By: pawn

pawn — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:41:16 +0000

As I said in another post about The BE-4 Situation,

“Bezos knows how to buy but not how to fly”

I thought it was cute.

By: Jeff Wright

Jeff Wright — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:48:22 +0000

The scuttlebutt I hear is that engineers have ideas...an enthused Bezos nods his head...leaves the room--and then some middle-management gnord comes along and puts the kibosh on the thing: "who told you that you can do this?" A lot of wealthy people have "handlers" to run interference. Handlers can keep a rich NFL star from being bled to death by his "crew" by being the bad guy who tells them 'no,' but they can kill the birth of new things-because they are typical low-imagination businessmen. Getting by "handlers" is why space privatization took so long. Bezos as a skinflint internalized these "NO" men where Elon allows a free hand. That's my guess. Ironically, shrill libertarian screeds against NASA probably scared away investors from New Space-with Wormtongue whispering in the ear of an investor: "See? If NASA can't do right-what makes you think this start-up can do better? Invest in computer programs with low overhead-not aerospace with the opposite. Look-you hired me to protect your assets-right?" That's how dreams die. Now if Old Space and New Space had talked each other up-the spigots would have loosened.

By: sippin_bourbon

sippin_bourbon — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 18:57:26 +0000

And at the same time, they are going to bid on the second commercial lander. The one that they convinced congress critters was necessary.
They will bid, but cannot show that they can get anything to orbit. Yes yes, I know Starship has not reached orbit either, but the at least when SpaceX says something, they have have some experience of actually getting there.

I am beginning to wonder. I know about the BO “step by step” philosophy. But it seems like they are working hard to re-invent the wheel. SpaceX invented a new wheel with re-usability. But they also knew, it seemed, what not to re-invent.
BO seems to take in no lessons learned.

By: David M. Cook

David M. Cook — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:27:37 +0000

He‘s no Howard Hughes, that‘s for sure! There‘s such a thing as being too “hands off” in your management style.

By: V-Man

V-Man — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:46:35 +0000

I don’t understand why Jeff isn’t on a rampage in the company right now. Not only are they costing him money, they’re making him look like a fool.