Blue Origin first human flight

Re:Blue Origin first human flight by Clewza313 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:39AM (#27893557)

Agree re: being underwhelmed, but in fairness, your typical "vomit comet" parabola flight only gets you about 25 seconds of weightlessness at a time. Although you can repeat this several dozen times per flight pretty easily.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by FredFS456 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:29AM (#27894180)

25-30 seconds, with https://www.gozerog.com/ offering 15 parabolas totalling 6.5-7.5 minutes for $7500+tax. Much better total zero-gee time at much cheaper rates. Of course, you don't get the view above the atmosphere...

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by jcims on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @10:54AM (#27894504)

I don’t think it’s the weightlessness as much as it is the view. That’s the part that i would like.

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by sprkwd on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:02PM (#27896305)

And that’s how you make a one take music video: https://youtu.be/LWGJA9i18Co

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Re:Blue Origin first human flight by qayxc on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:22PM (#27896542)

And you are ignoring the 1.8 g part after each parabola - the zero g don't come for free.

The acceleration on New Shepard is much lower and even the max acceleration experienced during landing should be in the same ballpark of <2 g but only once and for a very brief period of time only compared to the vomit comet.

This could be a factor for some people.

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