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Mick 🇨🇦

#BlueOrigin will put six people willing to cough up $150k USD for the experience into a capsule on top of a highly explosive rocket and launch it into low earth orbit.

One of these things - inevitably - will blow-up on take-off or crash on landing.

Who’s on your celebrity dream team?

Mine includes:

- Dr. Phil
- Kid Rock
- Tucker Carlson
- Jordan Peterson
- Jon Voight
- Clint Eastwood

blueorigin.com/new-shepard

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Spaceflight 🚀

Private investors in the #US 🇺🇸, #EU 🇪🇺, and #Oceania 🇳🇿 have pumped tens of billions 💰 into launch vehicle companies—as examples, more than $10B for #BlueOrigin, $1.2B into #RocketLab, $2.4B for #RelativitySpace, $700 million into #Firefly, $500M into #StokeSpace, and $483M into #IsarAerospace. (As an aside, the cost of developing the expendable #Falcon9 was $400M 💵) payloadspace.com/why-is-spacex

Payload · Why Is SpaceX The Master of Launch?Billions of dollars have yet to buy a SpaceX competitor.
#LaunchCost#SpaceCompany#RocketScience
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Spaceflight 🚀

#NASA is considering launching rockets to #Mars 🔴 next year. #SpaceX’s #Starship is not the only contender for the trip. #BlueOrigin’s #NewGlenn is already contracted to send two small #satellites 🛰️ to Mars politico.com/news/2025/05/07/n

#US 🇺🇸 – #Italy 🇮🇹 cooperation for "two Mars Missions in 📆 2026 and 2028" whitehouse.gov/briefings-state

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"Both contractors are already required to validate reusable heavy-lift launch capabilities—technologies essential for transporting mass beyond #LEO, whether toward the #Moon 🌙 or #Mars 🔴". The vote was 19–9 arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/

Ars Technica · After convincing Senators he supports Artemis, Isaacman nomination advancesBy Eric Berger
#Isaacman#NASA#Artemis
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