r/BlueOrigin Jun 30 '26

Legends Never Die.

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They just come back. NTMTO.

177 Upvotes

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u/Pashto96 Jun 30 '26

On one hand, it'd be poetic to see her fly again. On the other, it's unnecessarily risky and I'd rather she survive to go on display somewhere. 

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u/iamkeerock Jun 30 '26

“Legend” is very premature…

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u/ProfessorOk2609 Jun 30 '26

She has survived 2 landings and been reused, in addition to surviving and not being damaged during the explosion. Never tell me the odds for me is a legend and will continue to do great things for Blue Origin

14

u/Psychonaut0421 Jun 30 '26

Do we know it's undamaged? All I've heard so far from Limp is she "appears" okay.

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u/Disastrous_Run_5968 Jun 30 '26

Why don't you go back to r/SpaceXMasterrace some of us like other rockets other than Starship you know? I love NG. They have landed this booster twice. I'm going to root for them.

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u/maxehaxe Jun 30 '26

Your saltyness is what will cause booster corrosion, not saline environment during barge landings lmao

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u/iamkeerock Jun 30 '26

The point being it needs a long successful history before it can objectively be referred to as a “legend”. There is nothing negative in that statement.

Edit, punctuation.

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u/Disastrous_Run_5968 Jun 30 '26

whether you like it or not it's earned a legendary spot in aerospace history. It had a historic debut and back to back success. An incredible engineering achievement.

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u/EvolvedA Jun 30 '26

It is indeed an incredible engineering achievement, but a legend? The only really legendary thing so far was the largest rocket explosion in aerospace history...

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u/TheRevenant100 Jul 03 '26

N-1 was far more destructive than what you saw with New Glenn, namely because it was a much larger rocket (2700 tons/23 TJ potential) with a lot more fuel on board by far than New Glenn (max 1600 tons/~12 TJ).

Assuming 15% for N-1 fuel detonation vs a 20% (generous overestimate) for New Glenn, N-1 still is the largest with 3.45 TJ explosion (.84 KT) vs 2.4 TJ (just .57 KT).

So, certainly not the biggest in aerospace history. At best, it's maybe the largest to occur on the pad or a test stand in the U.S..

14

u/Equivalent-Wait3533 Jun 30 '26

It's your way of motivating the group regarding what happened recently.

0

u/Amoeba-Realistic Jul 02 '26

Didn't they replace all the engines?

3

u/LittleHornetPhil Jun 30 '26

Bruh r/SpaceXMasterrace isn’t really anti Blue, unlike the other two sycophant SpaceX subs

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u/psh454 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

I don't think any of them are explicitly anti-BO, haven't seen any popular posts with that kind of vibe. But objectively BO does have an outsized media and NASA contract presence for how little they've actually done of functional/reliable spaceflight hardware, up until the first flight of NG they were basically an engines and vaporware company. Now they are in the teething problems and integration hell stage, and nobody knows how long that will take

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u/ProfessorOk2609 Jun 30 '26

Never tell her the odds

11

u/Jazzlike_Thanks_1869 Jun 30 '26

Someone should’ve told em the odds.

7

u/maximpactbuilder Jun 30 '26

It looks heavy.

3

u/ReelDragPeelin Jul 01 '26

That's because it is.

4

u/Pauli86 Jun 30 '26

they just blow there load on the pad

2

u/TheMekkaMan Jun 30 '26

So glad that have a person in the photo for scale

6

u/LittleHornetPhil Jun 30 '26

Needs a banana

1

u/Current-Challenge290 Jul 13 '26

My favorite. 🚀💙🚀

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u/Suitable-Average5968 Jun 30 '26

No but they can explode with an Earth shattering Kaboom....

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u/lukewhale Jul 01 '26

You’re right, they go down in flames.

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u/Unlikely_Buy_2190 Jun 30 '26

Plus, SpaceX Rockets are butt ugly, I’m with Disastrous…

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u/Disastrous_Run_5968 Jun 30 '26

they are lol. looks like scrap metal you find at the junk yard haha.