Really? Really? Some moron brings a boat into the launch area? (Rolls up a newspaper)
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Nice to see they got a good launch after the last-second abort last attempt!
Competition is good, weāre living in exciting times 
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I slept through it. Iāll wait for the next one during waking hours!
Theyāre really pandering to the āBasement gnomes with bad sleep schedulesā on that one!
So me, basically. 
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How close? (no time to watch it all).
It was a thing in the 60/70ās for people to take anything that would float and run up the Indian River, drop anchor, and make an event out of it.
We did it once or twice. The scariest part was the chaos of boat traffic on the return trip. There was a min distance you could get but you could still see the āthingā with the naked eye, a mile-ish, maybe 2? Not sure.
First space shuttle launch was the loudest thing Iāve ever felt, yes felt. Even from 30 miles away. Seemed louder than the Saturn V evenā¦hmmā¦
Never occurred to me to measure it until now (thank you Google Earth) - yow! our house was only ~15 miles away +/-, depending on the pad! Wouldāve guess more from memory.
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Close enough that they decided to push back the launch to give them time to shepard the boat out of there and avoid an incident of fricasseed moronā¦
No other info available.
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The dude should be forced to attend kindergarten again so he can learn to look both ways before crossing. It sounds like heās been real lucky to get THIS far.
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My brother is on the spectrum and doesnāt relate with people all that well, but Iām with him in this caseā¦ āHow about we just remove the safety labels and let nature take itās courseā.
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So Iām not throwing shade all over the SpaceX thread Iāll post here: has anyone else noticed the ānotable space youtubersā all focussing on New Glennās relatively slow acceleration and failure to recover the launch stage?
Iām sorry, but this was a successful launch that delivered payload to orbit! On the first try! We should be celebrating that, shouldnāt we?
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It is certainly an achievement and for example Scott Manley sounded quite positive to me.
The reason why the slow acceleration is mentioned (and Scott explained it) is that the efficiency is impacted by gravity losses if you accelerate too slowly.
So mentioning it makes sense if you want to talk about what is probably next to tackle for the engineers of Blue Origin, and to judge if they succeed in that during future flights (because we can see it, most of what they do they wonāt tell us).
The first SpaceX Falcon 9 launches compared to now are really slow, for example.
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Thatās a good point, the SpaceX engines did improve with time.
I suppose catching a booster is a spectacle we can all see and marvel at. Even if you did SpaceX levels of cameras and socials (one are Blue Origin definitely need to improve 
) deploying a satellite into a stable orbit is not as visually spectacularā¦
Yeah, especially because it isnāt something unique. Many rockets launch and deploy satellites, almost daily. It is a big step for them, and a one deserving praise, but overall not too special.
It is kinda mind boggling that SpaceX booster landings (even the smaller ones) have now become a regular thing. Happens twice a week or so, no big deal.
This is absolutely unique. Nobody else has ever managed to land even one orbital class rocket booster that goes up there, does a gravity turn, goes Mach 10 and that kind of jazz.
Blue Originās New Shepard booster landing is already quite a great achievement, and that one is much easier (because smaller, not as fast at Mach 3, straight ascending flight profile without gravity turn).
Blue Origin has serious balls to even try landing their New Glenn booster. That is VERY hard.
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