Origin Stories: Carmen L. De Leon-Acosta

On #VeteransDay, we honor all veterans, including the many women and men at Blue Origin who have served our country. Meet retired United States Air Force MSgt Carmen De Leon-Acosta, a manufacturing operations assembly senior manager. Learn about her journey from the military into the space industry.

[@M83G]

Even her daughter is growing impatient with no rocket launch.

[@brianhabing5076]

Thank you for your service to the nation, MSgt De Leon-Acosta. She has an inspiring story. If I was on the Blue Origin public relations team, I would have her visiting public schools in the Seattle and Orlando areas, perhaps during STEM week.

[@sumcrazydude]

I sharr the same drive. Glad to be at BlueOrigin.

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

Your company is trash

[@sumcrazydude]

@Khalifa Raphael I still get paid way more than what I can spent so I love it 😀

[@AdamCoxwoodbinetigers]

What a GREAT story!!! Thank you for your service and for your continued work that benefits and WILL benefit so many for so many generations!

[@bledaattila6767]

1:57 in the background, a tank with a corrugation structure?

[@Nowhereman10]

No, that's the aft engine module structure for New Glenn in horizontal build up. The white-painted open wells are where the landing gear are stowed and deploy from.

[@bledaattila6767]

@@Nowhereman10 this tank is even further and to the right in the lower right corner

[@Nowhereman10]

I see what you're talking about, there's a tank with some structure, but it's not corrugated. We've seen it before, it was part of the pathfinder builds early on and it looks like it has structures for mounting hardware to.

[@bledaattila6767]

@@Nowhereman10 very interesting, you saw it, but where did you see it, indicate the source

[@Nowhereman10]

@@bledaattila6767 It's in prior videos put out by Blue, some only during New Shepard webcasts.

[@peterschulze3631]

I would love to work for BO but sadly it is impossible doe to ITAR.

[@traveltrailerlife]

Happy Veterans Day MSgt ....

[@martinmarabotto1067]

00:01 FLAT HORIZONT

[@jakeedwards7286]

Thanks for helping to advance mankind! You are amazing!

[@LuciFeric137]

Very impressive facility.

[@richardstansbury7847]

Thank you Carman for your service and your efforts to advance human space presents.

[@petersampson5202]

DEAR CARMEN AND EVERYONE AT BLUE ORIGIN, GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIENDS. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE. I LOVE YOU. I LOVE BLUE ORIGIN. GOD BLESS YOU MR. BEZOS. I AM VERY PROUD OF YOU AND VERY HAPPY FOR YOU. I HOPE ALL OF YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE MY FRIEND. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. I LOVE YOU MR. BEZOS. YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING WITH A BEAUTIFUL HEART. I AM SPEECHLESS AND COMPLETELY SURPRISED AND COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY! WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! EVERYTHING HAS BEEN A MIRACLE AND FAR BEYOND MY WILDEST DREAMS. THANK YOU SO VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY MUCH MR. BEZOS. I AM INDESCRIBABLY GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL. 🙏 SINCERELY PETER

[@Roma_753]

Keep calm bro, I agree with you but keep calm lol

[@morbus5726]

omg this meatriding

[@bakabaka2061]

Best scape goat when the company as a whole is a failure.

[@StingerNSW]

Well done Carmen 👍

[@Kaptah76]

Jeff, where is my engines?

[@jerichom11x]

Ula got them

[@HexaSquirrel]

This meme is dead. Let the past die.

[@Nowhereman10]

The engines were tested and delivered weeks many weeks ago and are now installed on Vulcan.

[@ryer8477]

Hmm still waiting, nothing new

[@NeuroPulse]

🥲

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

They upload more videos to KZbin then rockets to space 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BareSphereMass]

At the rate Blue Origin is going, they will be thinking about launching an orbital rocket by the time Starship is on Mars...

[@spacey22]

Cool story, congratulations, now how about putting a Blue Origin rocket in orbit? Just one!

[@tekish7682]

Thank You, We are all (everything space nuts nerds) pulling for all our private space pioneer companies to launch us into a new and exciting future. Please ... More stuff from Blue

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

SpaceX all the way.

[@johnvonludd1738]

Another video of BO not going to orbit

[@ps3301]

Please launch the rocket instead of telling us soft stories

[@boerqwhaas]

So BO = woke - beautiful! But they still can't get a rocket into orbit. Money pit like Meta.

[@martinmarabotto1067]

LIARS

[@jshepard152]

These videos must be what you do while you're not going to orbit.

[@monkeynomics8995]

No wonder everyone thinks BO stinks

[@hunter17hmr]

We'll done Carmen, there aren't any workers in that building. SpaceX is a hive of activity, talk about chalk and cheese.

[@Nowhereman10]

So, if there aren't any, who built all that New Glenn hardware behind her? Why is it when we see overflights of the Exploration Park factory by the NASAspaceflight folks, there are lots of cars around it? Did it ever occurred to you that maybe the video was made around a time when there's less work going on so as not to interfere with anything?

[@jshepard152]

@@Nowhereman10 Their results over 23 *years* show that there isn't much work being done.

[@lasersbee]

Still just a very expensive Up/Down amusement park ride... IMO

[@blackghost87]

I presume you're talking about New Shepard, but she's working on New Glenn, which will be a brand new and much more capable rocket

[@Forke13]

Wanted to go to NASA and ended up at Blue Origin. A new kind of edging yourself :D Jeez, I gotta unsubscribe. This channel puts out no interesting stuff.

[@AppleUser1111]

First

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

I will be back for every new video upload to keep up the banter

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

Jeff

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

At least SpaceX can show progress

[@Bazooka-Charlie]

Is