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January 05, 2007

Too ugly to fly

Blue Origin had a successful test launch and landing of their VTOL sub-orbital prototype on November 13 (reported on their website by Jeff Bezos). It's an odd looking craft:

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Photo from the Blue Origin website

The video shows the craft taking off and landing again (after reaching a height of 285 feet), but it just looks wrong. Of course, after all the footage of traditional rockets and the shuttle, anything a bit unusual is going to look weird.

Posted by Nicholas at January 5, 2007 11:07 AM
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