Jeff Bezos’Blue sourceSpace Venture has just begun to launch a heavy-lift rocket that was made of a decade in the manufacture-class-classNew glenTurn the vehicles, which was the first aircraft in January. However it is already planning something bigger than the rivalStarshipSuper-rocketSpaceXThe
Bezos is not just ready to share those plans.
In fact, the concept of a super-love-lift rocket known as New Armstrong (named in honor of the First Moonwakar Neil Armstrong) has been called New Glenn (named after the first American John Glene in the orbit). Bezos mentioned the way in 2016 in 2016, but at that time it was said that it was “a story for the future”.
Details about the new Armstrong are still a story for the future, according to an account“Rocket dreams,”Washington Post staff Writer is a book about Billionaire Space Race written by Christian Davenport. “They were very quiet about it,” said in the latest episode of DavenportFiction podcastThe “I asked Jeff specially at the new glen launch, and he didn’t want to talk about it.”
In the book he quoted Bezos just saying “We’re working in a car that will come after New Glenn and make more mass.”
New Armstrong is one of the few mysteries that have not been able to crack in its details about space challenges between Devenport Bezos and musk. Davenport first addressed the competition in a book titled “Space Barons” seven years ago, but this updated story is set in the context of a greater competition between the United States and China. Both countries have taken the goal of sending innovators to Moon by 2030, if not before.
Acting NASA Administrator Shan Duffy doubled in space competition this week when the Space Agency introduced 10 new innovative candidates to the public. “If the Chinese defeat NASA, or defeat America and return to the moon, I will be threatened,” he said.
Duffy Boss, President Donald Trump also has high expectations. It was Trump during his opening speech that it was“Our public destination”Our innovators to put stars and stripes on the well -being of our innovators. The musk in the audience responded with a joyful thumb-up.
Six decades ago, NASA was completely in charge of the first space race. But almost this time, the space agency is more dependent on private companies than ever to manage how the United States gets on the moon and Mars. The parallel races between America and China and SpaceX and Blue sources are the center of “rocket dreams”.
Suddenly, SpaceX miles ahead: It has been flying astronauts for NASA since 2021 and defeated the blue source for a million dollars of dollars for the NASA Artemis program to land on the moon first crew.
In “Rocket Dreams”, Davenport writes that SpaceX’s dominance has become a long -term source of disappointment for Bezos. On multiple occasions, reports bubbles that “Amazon Jeff” will turn the blue -born heat to accelerate progress – just as he did the Histor Tihasan, another company established.
Bezos took his most recent step two years ago when he named former Amazon VP Dave Limp to become the CEO of Blue Origin. More than a year after taking the lymph helm, the first launch of New Glenn arrived. However, the second introduction of New Glenn – which is supposed to send a pair of orbit to Mars for NASA – has been delayed repeatedly.
“They still have a lot to prove, and they are still behind SpaceX,” said Davenport. “I think Amazon Jeff is probably desperate and wants to go up fast.”
“Rocket Dreams” has taken the story of Space Race up to its recent two high points: an effectiveization of SpaceXStarship Launch System Super Heavy Booster’s spectacular catchesLast October and Blue Origin’s first introduction of the new Glenn. There are a few new twists and turns.
SpaceX has passed through three less successful Starship flight tests, then a More encouraging flights last monthThe The timeline of the development of the starship was lagging behind the perpetual assumption of the musk, which some have managed to think that the starsip has surprised whether a modified version of Artemis Artemis can get on the lunar surface on the high level NASA 2027 ScheduleThe
Count Davenport in Standers. “Very nice everyone knows that this is very impossible,” he said.
Meanwhile, Blue Origin continues to work on its own Blue Moon Lunar landing system, which was awarded the NASA contract two years after winning the SpaceX Primary Lunar Lander competition. Blue Moon MK 1 Lander has currently been scheduled to receive an involuntary test mission on the moonWithin the coming year– Which means that it is possible that the blue moon will reach the lunar surface before the starship is done.
Blue Origin is working on Moon -related projects beyond launch and landing. One of the subsequent chapters of “Rocket Dreams” describes his visit to a secret laboratory in the north of Los Angeles, where the Blue Origin engineers are working on technology to convert Moon’s dirt into valuable resources of solar cells and infections from breathing oxygen. The project, known as the Blue Alchemist, won $ 34.7 million in the NASA fund in 2023 andPass a critical design reviewJust this month.
Davenport says the Blue Origin of World Infrastructure seems to be ahead of SpaceX in the development of infrastructure. “You’ve heard about Elon, yes, we’re going to make a city on Mars. But what technology are you working with us to create sustainable presence there?” He said.
Unlike Davenport’s previous book, “Rocket Dreams” does not spend a significant amount of ink on other players in the commercial space race – Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson in 2021, in 2021, is the role of destroying the surroundings of the suborbital spaceflight in Bezos. The rise of the second wave of the future book should be documented in a future book.
Davenport Kent is most interested in the wash-based stoke space, which is creating its own reusable rocket. “They are moving incredibly fast, and what you hear about their progress is very, very positive,” he says. “There is always a lot of hype around these companies and the bottom line is that you have to prove that you need to fly.”
Probably the biggest problem in sequel is related to the Trump administration and what happens to the NASA Artemis Moon program in the next three years.
Davenport gave an episode details in “Rocket Dreams” so that NASA officials had to tell Trump that the introduction of a milestone would be suspended if the conditions were not correct, “and you can’t do anything about it.” Can Trump not take a no-go for any answer this time?
“You have begun to think about getting something to do with the protection – to do something to accelerate the program and defeat China,” Davenport says. “I’m simply anxious that you probably do something that is insecure.”
Trump’s victory is not the only reason behind the new space race. Federal governments and tech billionaires have a big reason to spend billions of dollars on space programs. From above, in the age of rising threats, starting fromDroneFromHypersonic weaponFromSatellite killerPlace for national protection is the final border – and the perception of global technology skills. Exactly how it was during the first space racing in the 1960s.
“Some of the largest themes in the next five to 10 years cannot come from the citizen space, or it will be acting with the Pentagon from the civic space,” said Davenport, “Davenport said. “Because I think that the place is a war -war domain and a competitive environment – it’s here, unfortunately, and we are watching itThe “
Christian Davenport will discuss“Rocket dreams”And Seattle’s new space racesFlightPT October at 7pm. Check the museum website forTicket informationAnd consultationThis is the LinkedIn postTo know about Davenport’s other upcoming book-tour events in Chicago; Orlando, FL.; And in Huntsville, Ala.
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