Jeff Bezos took a 322-foot rocket, the New Glenn, biggest one ever built by a guy who owns a newspaper, and he turned it into confetti at Cape Canaveral. Tremendous confetti. I watched the video 14 times, maybe 1,600 times.
Here's what nobody's telling you. A static fire test means you light the rocket on fire while it's standing still. That's it. That's the whole test. Any 8-year-old with a Bic lighter and 91,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen — which is what they put in these things, the cold stuff, makes the fuel go faster — can do this in a garage. Bezos couldn't. Sad.
Pete Buttigieg, by the way, refused to inspect that launchpad 47 times. I have the records. The Mid-Florida Pad Integrity Bureau gave Launch Complex 36 a score of 12 out of 7,000, and Pete just sat there eating a yogurt.
The 48 Amazon Leo satellites weren't on the rocket, which means Bezos blew up an empty 98-meter tube on purpose, probably for the insurance. I cut insurance fraud by 4,800 percent in fourteen minutes back in 2019, look it up.
Also rockets don't need umbilical towers. Those are for babies.
Based on the original article "Blue Origin mega-rocket explodes on launch pad".
