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Re:New Glenn’s Progress Towards Maiden Flight by Nekhrimah on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:50PM (#26269357)
> [Blue Origin's] second generation rocket, currently nicknamed New Armstrong.

Great post. Just clarifying that New Armstrong will be the third generation, behind New Glenn (second) and New Sheppard (first).

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Re:New Glenn’s Progress Towards Maiden Flight by rst on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:08PM (#26270048)
Well, if you're counting suborbital vehicles, Blue also had the Goddard research prototype.

That said, while Blue will probably have something called New Armstrong if they last long enough, even they may have no clear idea what would bear that name right now. "New Armstrong" is a name that Bezos dropped for a successor at the New Glenn announcement; even if there was some concrete plan attached to it, it may still not be much more substantial than the "Falcon X/Falcon XX" plan that SpaceX presented at a conference in 2010, and ditched fairly soon after.

https://spaceflight101.com/spacex-launch-vehicle-concepts-de...

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