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And the three finalists are Shepard, Grissom, and John Glenn.And so they flew suborbital flights.
in space I don't know why that is but you know almost all the people who have privately gone to space have come fromthe high-tech industry a lot of the people who in either investing in or building rockets suborbital rocket scum from the high-tech industry or thecomputer industry and I'm definitely no exception there you know and you know but if I really kind of sat down and
And the three finalists are Shepard, Grissom, and John Glenn.And so when Glenn was finally selected to go third, that too was supposed to be a suborbital flight.
So they had much lighter rockets, which meant great for nuclear weapons, not great for getting humans into orbit.So what they ended up with was smaller rockets that, at first, could only put humans into a suborbital trajectory, which is exactly what, for example,Bezos is doing right now with the New Shepard rocket that is going up, actually, I think, next month, with Bezos actually inside it.
But it's this kind of fun solve of getting above water vapor without actually having to launch to space.I also interviewed colleagues that do things like balloon astronomy, where you'll send detectors aloft on giant research balloons, or even suborbital rocketastronomy, where you launch a little parabolic rocket.
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