NS-20 Pre-Mission Interview: Lead Flight Director, Nicholas Patrick

Lead flight director Nicholas Patrick sat down with webcast host and director of civil space exploration sales, Jacki Cortese, to provide a status update on the NS-20 mission and crew preparations.

[@wysochunky2110]

DO A BE4 UPDATE

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Ha. Ha. And Ha.

[@tertiaryobjective]

Good luck, despite my lyrical burns on Jeff, competition in space is good. Get the BE4 flying!

[@caseykaplan5168]

This is great that blue origin has perfected human customer paid spaceflights.

[@hi-q2261]

Speaking of Blue Origin what happened to New Glenn ?

[@ChevTecGroup]

What happened to New Armstrong as well? Hahaha

[@thomasackerman5399]

Being built. There's lots of video of the big fairings and payload adapter being tested up at NASA's Armstrong facility up in Ohio in the big vacuum chamber and of hardware in Florida under construction and being tested. An article from a few months ago indicates that an NG first stage might roll to the pad for a rehearsal as early as 3rd quarter of this year.

[@sexy42069]

When is going New Glen to space, befor or after BFR is on the mars?

[@jerichom11x]

Yes

[@thomasackerman5399]

BFR isn't going to Mars for a very long time.

[@sexy42069]

@@thomasackerman5399 Yeah but New Glen isn't starting either

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@sexy42069 Doesn't matter if New Glenn launches before Starship/Super Heavy can reach Mars.

[@johnvonludd1738]

Another up and down, wow

[@SpaceTime773]

Jeff, where are my engines ?

[@thaddday]

"The primary focus is the safety of people." Cool. How about you put an ambulance and an EMT crew near the landing site...instead of drones and film crews?

[@mikecloeter4780]

Because they don’t know exactly where it will land

[@thaddday]

@@mikecloeter4780 Haven't watched many recent launches, have you? They've all been landing in roughly the same spot after the exact same flight time. But couldn't an ambulance be as close as a drone camera operator? William Shatner was 90 and the only ones that rushed him were Bezos, friends, family, and film crews. And still, after all of those people got there...no EMT. Look into it. Only a safe, staged event wouldn't need an ambulance. Hell, every football game you've ever been to has one IN CASE of an emergency. It was also 29 degrees for the Strahan fake launch. Zero jackets. Zero condensation from breath. Zero acknowledgement that it was even cold. Open your eyes and spot the lies!

[@UncleKennysPlace]

You can bet that exists, but that is something you don't want to show on a video, is it?

[@coffeespy1133]

Emergency services are likely right around the corner even if not shown on screen

[@thaddday]

@@UncleKennysPlace "The primary focus is the safety of people." Just going by his words. I'm not saying the ambulance has to be in the promotional video for the program, but it should be seen in a huge wide shot of the area where it "lands." I would also like to see their "astronauts" exit the capsule and act like people do after they get off a rollercoaster...excited, adrenalized, and eager to do it again. All we get is poor, poor acting.

[@jerichom11x]

What "mission"? Go up a little bit and float down. All this marketing crap is so sad

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Hey, if I has a spare quater-million ... naw. I'd buy more land.

[@mfzb0912]

Jeff who?

[@jerichom11x]

@@user-pz6mc2oj3f who?

[@Look_At_My_Picture.]

Someone throw me a friggin bone here.

[@thedarkside13]

*"Do you need engines, Jeff?"* ~Tory Bruno

[@UncleKennysPlace]

And then Tory will ask Elon.

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@UncleKennysPlace Musk will not sell Raptors and Tory has unequivocally stated ULA will not redesign Vulcan. Also, Raptor is still in development as well, too, and it falls still short of the thrust requirements.

[@thomasackerman5399]

They do. For New Glenn.

[@christiandean6665]

Y’all like cheese?

[@lasersbee]

Still just a very expensive Up and Down Amusement Park Ride..... IMO

[@Look_at_myphoto-6529]

I think it would be cool to make make fun of that Elon Musk guy too, but nothing really comes into my mind for it.

[@SpaceTime773]

Docking with a suborital rocket HAHA, good joke.

[@jerichom11x]

Don't compare the knob rocket to the shuttle in any way, shape or form.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

"It's more wiener-like than the shuttle" is a fair comparison.

[@Thefutureofspace]

Sos The higher the temperature, the more the oceans will evaporate, then there will be more humidity and more precipitation, the desert will decrease plants regarding moisture and carbon dioxide will grow faster, the history of the earth is such that if global warming was antiquity, then it was a paradise for the biosphere,. .and when global cooling was then the evaporation of the oceans would decrease and precipitation would decrease, the desert would increase, this would collapse for the biosphere.The largest desert Antarctica, the hottest place the rainforests. Read the history of the earth, ancient times in global warming for the biosphere was a paradise. For plants, food is carbon dioxide, the more carbon dioxide, the more plants and more animals, carbon dioxide is not evil but good, without carbon dioxide there would be no life, that's a fact!.

[@paulsto6516]

They don't dock with anything, and don't have to target any place in space, so they don't have to mess with all those pesky launch windows, and other complicated spaceflight type calculations. Amazing!

[@UncleKennysPlace]

Because they go to space*, not space. SINO.

[@soumyojitpal3399]

Why does this woman look like jeff bezos' sister 🤣

[@paulcadden4967]

Another up and down, seen it.

[@dustaone8521]

No one cares except rich people, famous people, and Jeff's ego. Put something in orbit and deliver BE-4, until that happens this company is an expensive joke.

[@dustaone8521]

@@user-pz6mc2oj3f Considering my comment is the highest voted on this video, it doesn't look like no one cares. I'm not trolling, it's a direct statement based on the company's achievements (or lack thereof) to date. Keep defending them though, I'm sure you'll get offered a ride to space (for a few minutes) soon...

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@dustaone8521 I give a damn. Regular space tourism is important.

[@dustaone8521]

@@thomasackerman5399 I agree, but this is not the way. Blue Origin don't care about increasing access to space for humanity as a whole, and this is nothing but a vanity project for bezos. They should be focused on delivering the BE-4 engines they promised to ULA that are almost 5 years late. They should be focused on putting useful payloads into orbit and practicing reusability (landing New Glenn). They should be focused on realising the future they claim they want to see of millions of people living and working in space. Sending multimillionaires and celebrities on an expensive 3 minute exclusive joyride is not progressing anything, and is not important.

[@thomasackerman5399]

@@dustaone8521 This is about putting people into space and increasing access. This is a point where suborbital allows people to fly who can't afford nor have a rich buddy, like Jared Issacman to pay for a full, multi-day trip into orbit for tens of millions of dollars, and New Shepard is currently doing very well at that. And things are happening. New Glenn is being built as well as BE-4 getting finished up, even though it's not as fast as we'd hope it would be. But that's the nature of this business. It's hard, as Elon would say, very hard.

[@dustaone8521]

@@thomasackerman5399 Videos of bezos cackling and showering a recovering alcoholic with champagne while he's trying to make a passionate speech about what he experienced proves this is nothing but a vanity project. This isn't progress, this isn't an accomplishment to be celebrated, this isn't furthering our expansion into the stars. It looks bad to the general public and achieves nothing for them other than further demonstrating the widening wealth gap. Blue Origin (or more precisely Smith and bezos) have proven they would rather stifle the progress made by others, rather than actually produce something useful. For expansion into LEO the general public needs to be behind the idea, to stimulate funding, interest, and support. This does the opposite. As for BE-4 and New Glenn, I'll believe it when I see it.

[@quinn165]

Boring

[@petersampson5202]

GOD BLESS YOU NICOLAS AND JACKIE. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE MY FRIENDS. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS EVERYONE AT BLUE ORIGIN. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE MY FRIENDS. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS YOU JEFF. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE MY FRIEND. I HOPE YOU HAD THE BEST AND HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. I LOVE YOU JEFF AND I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN A MIRACLE AND FAR BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN SUCH A PROFOUND BLESSING AND AN INDESCRIBABLE GIFT FROM GOD AND MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. I AM INDESCRIBABLY GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. EVERYTHING HAS BEEN FAR BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS! I LOVE MR. ESPARZA AND ALL OF MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. THANK YOU SO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH JEFF! WOW! WOW! WOW! 🙏