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It looks like a cross between something out of a cheap science fiction movie and the NASA re-entry capsules that preceded the space shuttle. However, the nose cone rocket on four legs named Goddard is anything but a joke to its creator Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
According to Bezos, he wants his company Blue
Origin to lower the cost of space travel for ordinary people and for
the first time he has revealed on the company website how and with what
he intends to do it.
The site features pictures and videos of the futuristic spacecraft
taking off from a vertical position, rising to a height of about 100
meters and then landing again on its legs.
The Goddard is the first development vehicle in Blue Origin's New
Shepard program, which aims to develop a vertical take-off, vertical
landing vehicle designed to take a small number of astronauts on a
sub-orbital journey into space.
"We’re working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of
spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans
can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this
mission will take a long time, and we’re working on it methodically,"
says Bezos on the Blue Origin site.
Part of the Blue Origin publicity drive on its site appears to involve
attracting aerospace engineering talent to the project. According to
Bezos: "Blue Origin is looking for experienced propulsion engineers and
experienced turbomachinery engineers, as well as a senior leader to
head our turbopump group. Folks with turbopump or propulsion experience
on large, modern, cryogenic engines such as the RS-68 are of particular
interest."
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