I’m in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee “just above 100km”. It’s pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.
If we’re gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.
It’s basically always been over 100km after some of the early test flights. It was explicitly a stated goal to cross the karman line as “making it to space.”
I think you’re thinking of when this same thing played out in the first manned flight. At the time some of the “better” arguments said the karman line is arbitrary and some other height was better. Or time in space. Or training. Or ability to control the ship. Or…
In the end, she’s been to space and these comments just seem petty to me.
What makes you say that?
I’m in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee “just above 100km”. It’s pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.
If we’re gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.
In that case they seem to have actually upped their game because for a pretty long time they weren’t able to.
But yes, I’m all in favor of throwing shade, so we can if course make fun of the phallic shape. And in my book, astronauts have been in orbit.
It’s basically always been over 100km after some of the early test flights. It was explicitly a stated goal to cross the karman line as “making it to space.”
I think you’re thinking of when this same thing played out in the first manned flight. At the time some of the “better” arguments said the karman line is arbitrary and some other height was better. Or time in space. Or training. Or ability to control the ship. Or…
In the end, she’s been to space and these comments just seem petty to me.