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This article is worth the read. Starliner was in an extremely precarious situation that we didn't previously know about.

Petition to make all launch failures this pretty.

It's so disappointing. Now the next person to write valid, honest critiques will have to overcome this author's selfishness to get attention.

I think you're right that Canadians and Mexicans know this and still want to be friends, but it doesn't matter. The United States has officially and democratically become hostile to them, and they're going to have to change the way they think about the relationship. An America that can't be trusted reliably simply can't be trusted.

Edit: But this doesn't mean further conflict is inevitable! The sane citizens of each country will just need to work around the problem.

I don't think they feel betrayed by Trump, but rather the United States. One of their closest friends just declared economic war on them for no reason. The shattering of trust isn't less painful because they had advanced notice.

On the one hand, I bet this topic/tweet will never come up again.

On the other hand, I'm taking deep breaths as I prepare for space policy to be like this every day.

WTF, man.

That looked impressively clean! I hope we get high-res onboard footage soon.

Yeah, I'm very impressed by how much they've improved since Monday. Maybe they can do rapid iteration afterall :P

I think there's an interesting comms lesson in how universally grumpy the space enthusiast community is after the clock shenanigans the other day.

There's nothing inherently wrong with that clock style, but it seems to have totally demoralized way more people than a typical scrub does.

I don't think it's as simple as "this is different than SpaceX". My theory is that we feel like Blue was toying with our enthusiasm, and it's a weird "I am being taken advantage of" instinct.

Ultimately this doesn't matter - Blue is a rocket company, not a science communicator. But perhaps there's a lesson for the rest of us as we build science communities.

(I'm bored waiting for this launch)

I hope we'll eventually get to hear about how their experience landing New Shepard translated to New Glenn. For instance, what parts of the codebase carried over? Naively, it feels like apples and oranges.

Such a pretty rocket. I really hope this launch succeeds; I'm tired of feeling like SpaceX is thirty years ahead of everyone else! Ten years is much more palatable.

Prediction: gets to orbit, no landing attempt. They're so cautious that there's no way the software checks will all pass on the way down.

Some seem to think that the Blue Origin website has a higher video quality.