Okay, so the billionaire space race is rather dick comparing (and esp. Bezos because, all offense, that rocket ship looks like a giant dildo).
Ahem.
But the little trip into space did, in fact, go well. While I think SpaceShip Two is more immediately useful than New Shepard, I'm very intrigued by the technology they're using to make the capsule touchdown no more of a bump than a hot air balloon landing. It involves compressed air, so I don't know how well it would work in a vacuum, but it might end up being very useful for landing people and fragile things on Mars.
Also, the spaceport looks like it belongs on Tatooine or some other backwater planet, just saying. I think they should lean into that and make it all rugged and frontier-y.
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