Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket Fails After Takeoff

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin LLC experienced its first major failure Monday, aborting a launch of its suborbital New Shepard rocket shortly after takeoff in West Texas.

[@SilverSquirrel]

C'mon guys, how hard can this be? It's rocket science not a reboot of Lord of the Rings!

[@scienceisreligion5618]

And we are speaking about settling up in mars? What a shame to us!!! To humans.. that we cant even make good engines so failure is reduced at 0.001% This is real shame.. We are not going to start settling mars in this century itseems

[@jayford8479]

@@scienceisreligion5618 Blue Origin isn't, no.

[@Brokenrocktail]

Lol people like you really don't seem to understand how hard aerospace engineering is. SpaceX has had its share of engine failures, so did the space shuttle. Only difference is they had more engines so it didn't cause a mission abort. Acting like this is all easy stuff just makes you sound like trolls

[@jayford8479]

@@Brokenrocktail So you're saying BO's failure here is relying on a single engine. Okay.

[@scienceisreligion5618]

@@Brokenrocktail and we are speaking about colonizing mars?? Isnt that shame to us that we arent able to make effective engine that dont die?

[@whome8444]

A failure-like their Rings of Power series, except there is no emergency system for that mess.

[@deckape69]

Looks like Amazon failed to deliver....where's my package....item is no longer available for 2 day shipping

[@carademarcus]

Lol

[@carljohan9265]

Fun fact, this was very clearly an engine fail. While ULA are waiting for BO to deliver engines to them that are extremely overdue. Yea, if I was Tory Bruno I would not exactly be calm right now.

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[@mysticdreamworks]

Even the announcer voice.... staggering and gulping.

[@brianlacroix822]

She knows she's losing her job over this.

[@_ShaDynasty]

Not a totally failure. Proved that the safety features work well

[@willrose5424]

What date was this?

[@raphaelgarcia3636]

Did you not read the date on here?

[@hr8052]

Elon Musk in the background saying, “bwahahahha!!”

[@w0lfy340]

Plot twist: Elon sabotaged the rocket before takeoff

[@acmelka]

Didn't look like retro thrusters to me looked like an astronaut breakin event

[@jakoblarok]

and until someone provides a pre-launch-sourced list of crew, and proof of their current status in the mortal realm; ima presume them all dead...

[@Brokenrocktail]

Retro thrusters always look like that they fire at 10ft or less and kick up a huge cloud. Look up some internal videos of landings they certainly work

[@brianlacroix822]

@@jakoblarok this flight was un-crewed.

[@OnceUponReddit]

'off nominal situation'

[@MotoZ7]

It cleared the tower 👍 Off nominal situation 🙀

[@brianlacroix822]

It says a lot when all of the comments on here talk about "off nominal" but none are about how this rocket looks like a pen-s

[@TheeObsidian]

You missed that several launches ago lol

[@LeonVanDyk]

Off nominal LOL

[@davidstein1376]

Amazon. China. "Renewed". Just try getting a refund, Bat Ears.

[@deh773]

You don't say?

[@w0lfy340]

I hope the passengers were refunded 💀

[@Fummy007]

No passengers this time

[@billual]

eyes are not think the capsule fire retro rockets before hitting the ground

[@Brokenrocktail]

They did. Look up other videos of other landing s

[@tuathaukui8565]

FAILURES IS GOOD FOR EXPRIENCE SO MORE FAILURES IS THE BEST

[@goldsilvervscrisiscollapse4320]

no boom? Aww I was hoping for fireworks

[@nathanfisher6925]

where's the "kaboom"? there was supposed to be an earth-shattering "kaboom"!

[@dougm3037]

Bezos should apply for a job at Boeing after this. lol

[@Brokenrocktail]

Boeing who's capsule failed to reach orbit because of a software error? Or Boeing who killed nearly 600 people in two crashes of a brand new aircraft because they didn't test it properly

[@brianlacroix822]

@@Brokenrocktail stop watching netflix boeing didn't kill those people it was inept airlines that failed to train their under qualified pilots how the systems work instead of teaching them how to rely on autopilot.

[@Dante-uw5me]

honestly the farthest thing from a failure. no big boom, no imminent danger to human life. this is nothing but proof that investment works rather than any negativity.

[@deckape69]

Amazon failed to deliver 😂😂😂😂

[@DKK]

Lol

[@blacknikespurpleblankie1354]

Cope and seethe

[@Brokenrocktail]

@@blacknikespurpleblankie1354 cope with what the fact that the abort system functioned as intended?

[@raphaelgarcia3636]

Maybe he can ask Musk to build him another one LOL

[@tiffanystarrdust3902]

I just don't understand how this technology has been used to carry man to the moon decades ago and we still are dependant on it and it's still failing?

[@RocketPal]

???

[@Cozmo1994]

Because we are using new technology to do other things, Like re-land the rocket stages, and we need to make it more Simple and not as complex.

[@thongnaga9887]

wow..amazing

[@khashoggiship]

Give it up Mr. Bezos. You can't succeed in anything hard like rockets or television series.

[@Brokenrocktail]

Lol

[@Brokenrocktail]

Because someone named Chookity Pop could do better

[@brianlacroix822]

@@Brokenrocktail plot twist: Chookity Pop is Ted Turner's cool nephew who started Adult Swim

[@Brumbie68]

When it all goes 2 Shit (off nominal system) 🤣don't worry as the Bulbous head will save u

[@deh773]

Lol

[@Nothing2CHere4U]

Smited

[@lowelllarsen5947]

An anomaly?

[@brianlacroix822]

Well that and an off nominal

[@Edfiki86]

Haha, benis!

[@DKK]

Just bring back the shuttle already

[@redfire281GT]

Crew would've died in the shuttle, no crew capsule escape like a traditional rocket type design. The shuttle was a death trap

[@AngryAlanski]

Our 52 billion dollars a day to nasa from our tax dollars hard at work

[@carademarcus]

This isn’t nasa though

[@kup4ever]

🤦🏿‍♂️This is Amazon, not NASA, and stop acting like you were about to do something more productive than space exploration with your small percentage of "52 billion"🤣

[@AngryAlanski]

@@kup4ever so you are saying you are for destroying the firmiment with rockets, missiles, cern, etc.

[@kup4ever]

@@AngryAlanski Ohhhhh, my bad, I didn't know you were a geologist. While I do believe in a higher power (not necessarily biblical), I believe much more in science and man's nature to explore and learn.

[@jakoblarok]

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[@DevilRoom360]

Someone indeed is in need of Elon Musk