#BLUEORIGIN: Announcing a launch date. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#BLUEORIGIN: Announcing a launch date. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-first-launch-of-new-glenn-is-targeting-a-september-29-2024-launch-date/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. |
| 0:23.0 | Wish you were here. |
| 0:24.0 | Follow the price of Paradise waiting, waiting, waiting. information about the new glen rocket waiting waiting we've got a date Bob what |
| 0:46.6 | is new glen and what is the date good evening to you good evening John new glen |
| 0:50.6 | is the first orbital rocket that the Blue Origin, Jeff Basis Company, has been trying to build and launch for 20 plus years. |
| 1:02.0 | A little background. Blue Origin was formed almost the same day as |
| 1:07.1 | SpaceX. SpaceX now has landed. I'm not talking about launching. It's now landed more than 300 first stages. That's more than almost any rocket has been launched. |
| 1:18.0 | Blue origin hasn't yet gotten New Glen off the ground. It's just's just took forever and in fact there was almost a five year delay |
| 1:26.5 | it's almost five years behind schedule partly because of problems with its BE4 engine that uses in its first stage and probably because the former |
| 1:35.8 | CEO of Blue Origin that Bezos hired to run the company, slow walked everything for five years. He's gone now and the company is |
| 1:44.5 | done to come back to life. So that's the history of New Glen. Well finally it |
| 1:48.8 | appears we have a launch date for New Glen. NASA has a payload on this first launch of New Glen. It's a science |
| 1:57.8 | experimental platform satellite project. |
| 2:04.0 | And so they were giving a presentation about what NASA is going to do on this and the guy who gave the presentation |
| 2:10.0 | flipped out that they are planning a, that New Glen is planned for September 29th launch later this year. |
| 2:18.0 | Now there have been a lot of rumors and hints that they were going to try to launch in the second half of this year, |
| 2:24.0 | but this is the first time we have an actual date. |
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