That is wonderful!

And Blue Origin was the best choice to be the second partner after SpaceX. If it wasn’t BO it would have been Boeing or ULA or one of the other existence launch providers which have not shown the ability to innovate cost effectively.

To be frank, the need for redundancy and two options is a major reason why Starliner hasn’t been canceled. Despite how badly Boeing has managed that product, the government needs them to solve it and starting over with another company would cost too much time and money.

The reason is the government can not be dependent on a single launch provider. Due to the importance of space for national security they require redundancy in access to space. No matter what they would have two launch providers.

This is too real 😅

Catch the NS-28 webcast on the blue origin channel.
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The on going starship development is a critical piece to the next phase of human space flight.

You can find the live stream www.spacex.com/launches/mis...

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A.

There will be new space based telescopes that will be better than anything we can possibly capture on earth, but our earth viewing from telescopes will no longer be what it has been ever again.

This is not an argument against progress, just a fact.