Are people actually hoping Bezos dies in this?
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They're currently talking about how Neil Armstrong landed on the moon on the same day as they're doing this suborbital tourist flight. It's the same thing apparently.
I dont think they're even wearing helmets for this?
Not hoping but it would interesting to be watching if something happened.
The ship is pretty phallic.
Very, my immediate thought as well
Here we go
Erection! I mean... liftoff...
Must be a bit wild feeling three times your weight during the initial phase, then suddenly feeling weightless.
Big ol' dick flying into space.
Uncanny resemblance to the bald bad guy too
Bezos must be releaved he can send freely ship-pics this time.
There's a rocket going up there as well.
It looks like a giant...
Aren't they all ? (Excepting the Shuttle of course).
Watched Austin Powers couple of nights ago. This rocket is perfect for the gags 
I like how they dropped Blue pill origin from the name
Saturn VYeah, it looks bad next to the Statue of Liberty
. So happy I managed to see this beast. Truly mind boggling.Actually mad how they can land the booster perfectly upright. Like something out of a sci-fi film.
Wait, that's it?
That was absolutely crazy
Musk did it before, so obviously Bezos had to match him.
Was about to post this. Meh to say the least.
I’m lucky enough to have seen a shuttle launch in real life. Will never forget it.Saturn V
The Saturn V was supposed to be absolutely brutal. I'd guess this New Shepard was pretty smooth, not especially powerful and no stages.
Yes, none of these are capable of going to orbit. It's a few seconds in weightlessness. That's why people are saying it's just a billionaire's pissing contest rather than real space travel. Musk is the only one doing that.
Dunno how you can find anything like this meh tbh even if you hate Bezos. Very cool to be able to have everything land so safely.
That was ridiculously pointless
Well that was underwhelming.
Not sure there is a better way of reusing components really, although I believe some refurbishing is still needed before the next flight. Read the plan is to have Super heavy land back where it started, refuel and take off again… which I’ll believe when I see it.
Not about Bezos at all (although I dislike him), I guess it's not just my sort of thing to get excited about. I caught it on cnn while having breakfast and all the hype they were putting into this made me think it would be something spectcular, so decided to wait. It was so fast and so low altitude, I'm disappointed.
For me, this is not nearly as impressive as what Baumgartner did. Still boggles the mind that he pulled it off.
Gary is like what even is emotion.
Buck Rogers did it better.
Joseph Kittinger did it first, in 1959.
Was pretty amazing to see the rocket sit back down on the bullseye. I know Musk has done it before but I haven't watched any of his.
CNN calling them astronauts . Feck off.
. Feck off.Pretty meh.
Technically they are.CNN calling them astronauts
Not my astronauts