Cosmic Log has published a story titled Blue Origin Revealed, where you can read and learn about Blue Origin, which is Jeff Bezos aerospace company – see pictures and a short video of their successful maiden test flight of their Goddard rocket vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicle.
It is great to see their accomplishments, especially after having met some of the folks behind it – an awesome group of people, scientists and engineers, and I was immediately convinced they had the right stuff, and would be successful: because of the people involved, and because of their do-it-right-and-safely long-term approach to this very high risk, empirical venture, from hardware to software to people to processes. It is as their motto reads “Gradatim Ferociter” which translates to “Step by Step, Courageously”.
This story, their maiden test flight, has a personal emotional effect on me. Back in 2003 I interviewed with Blue Origin, and got a job offer from them, to help develop their onboard software… but due to family circumstances at that time, I was not able to take the job and move to Seattle; this is one of those opportunities in life that I look back and kick myself… but life goes on.
Note that Blue Origin is currently looking for engineers…
Congratulations to the Blue Origin team!
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[Via Weblogsky]