A lot of hardware destined for space went to pieces this week, but to hear the rocket companies responsible for the messes tell it, little untoward happened at all. “We did it! Orbital. Great night for Team Blue,” David Limp, the CEO of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin posted on X, after the Jan. 14 maiden launch of the company’s New Glenn rocket ended with an upper stage payload successfully reaching orbit. The first stage, which was supposed to land gently on a downrange barge, however, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.
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00:00Wow, talk about it going right over us. Oh my God.
00:05That's so sick. One in a million.
00:07Oh my God, how cool is this?
00:10Hey, do you see?
00:11Oh my God, this is crazy.
00:13Like, what is this even?
00:15I don't even know what I'm looking at.
00:16I don't know what I'm looking at.
00:18Oh, it's so cool.
00:19Oh my goodness, it doesn't look real.
00:22Wow.
00:23This is, this is, this is not right.
00:25Something happened. This exploded.
00:28This thing has exploded.
00:30And the gravity.
00:32Whoa.
00:33Mom, it's on.
00:34It's on.
00:35No, I don't think so.
00:37You think something's gone?
00:38Yeah, oh, absolutely.
00:39No one in that, right?
00:40No.
00:41No one was in it, right?
00:42No.
00:42Oh, it died down.
00:43Whoa.
00:44Oh my goodness.
00:45Look at those cars.
00:47There they go, look.
00:48Yeah, Abe, look at the, look at the chocolate shop.
00:51Look.
00:52Wow.
00:53Wow.
00:54Talk about being at the right place at the right time.
00:56This is like a one in a million spot.
00:59Yeah.
01:00One in a billion spot.
01:01Yeah, that was amazing.
01:05We're good, right?
01:06We're good?