{"id":20196,"date":"2025-01-16T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20196"},"modified":"2025-01-16T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T17:29:54","slug":"jeff-bezos-successful-blue-origin-launch-silences-skeptics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20196","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos\u2019 Successful Blue Origin Launch Silences Skeptics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company sent its first rocket into orbit.<\/p>\n

At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket, barely moving at first, nudged upward and then accelerated in an arc over the Atlantic Ocean, lit up in blue, the color of combustion of the rocket\u2019s methane fuel.<\/p>\n

Thirteen minutes later, the second stage of New Glenn reached orbit.<\/p>\n

The launch was a major success for Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 rocket company. It should quiet critics who say that the company has been too slow compared with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which has dominated global spaceflight industry in recent years. New Glenn could prove a credible competitor with Mr. Musk\u2019s company and win launch contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense, as well as commercial contracts.<\/p>\n

For at least one moment, however, the two richest people in the world warmly cheered each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt!\u201d Mr. Musk wrote on X, the social media site that he owns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThank you!\u201d Mr. Bezos replied.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bezos posted a series of pictures and videos. \u201cBeautiful,\u201d Mr. Musk commented on one of the images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jeff Bezos announcing the Blue Origin New Shepard space system in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2017.<\/span>Nick Cote for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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On Thursday morning, at a time when most people in the United States were sleeping, Jeff Bezos\u2019 space company sent its first rocket into orbit.At 2:03 a.m. Eastern time, seven powerful engines ignited at the base of a 320-foot-tall rocket named New Glenn. The flames illuminated night into day at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket, barely moving at first, nudged upward and then accelerated in an arc over the Atlantic Ocean, lit up in blue, the color of combustion of the rocket\u2019s methane fuel.Thirteen minutes later, the second stage of New Glenn reached orbit.The launch was a major success for Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos\u2019 rocket company. It should quiet critics who say that the company has been too slow compared with Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX, which has dominated global spaceflight industry in recent years. New Glenn could prove a credible competitor with Mr. Musk\u2019s company and win launch contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense, as well as commercial contracts.For at least one moment, however, the two richest people in the world warmly cheered each other.\u201cCongratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt!\u201d Mr. Musk wrote on X, the social media site that he owns.\u201cThank you!\u201d Mr. Bezos replied.Mr. Bezos posted a series of pictures and videos. \u201cBeautiful,\u201d Mr. Musk commented on one of the images.Jeff Bezos announcing the Blue Origin New Shepard space system in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 2017.Nick Cote for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20198,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20199,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20196\/revisions\/20199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}