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Blue Origin rocket New Glenn explosion during a test at Kennedy Space Center in Cocoa Beach, FL. 28.05.26 (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/catastrophicfailure@lemmy.world
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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm in no way supportive of privatizing spaceflight, but this ignores the reality of the many, many catastrophic explosions that have occurred among publicly funded rocketry programs. Turns out strapping a capsule to a giant bomb and trying to control it while it explodes is pretty dangerous

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    SLS didn’t have a failure nearly this bad.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    But all the agencies responsible for SLS (NASA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin) have lengthy histories of engineering and construction of rocket systems and have had their fair share of catastrophies. Blue Origin does not have that history.

    I can't believe I'm defending Blue Origin, I think I just threw up in my mouth

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