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New Glenn Second Launch<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bald, rich guy Jeffery ‘Dick Pic’ Bezos confirmed his status in the Ultra-Rich Guy Rocket Club this past week, launching the New Glenn rocket for the second time. I was impressed by the really loud roar the rocket produced on the crystal-clear lunch day. More like what I remember with the Saturn V and its huge engines.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Big Dildo and Crew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Very impressive compared to his smaller Big Dildo Rocket, he uses to launch his harem and other interesting people like a 90-year-old Captain Kirk into space. This new one is serious fucking business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getting in the Way Back Machine, we go back to the early 1960s when Dad, working for General Dynamics, is involved in launching the first major rocket, the Atlas, into space. I would eagerly watch every launch. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Dad with the Convair Atlas Team in the late 1950s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At Cocoa Beach Elementary School (more commonly known as Freedom 7 after a name change), my class would regularly walk the half-dozen blocks from the school on Fourth Street South (less than a block from where I live now) to the beach. Right out at the end of Cape Canaveral stood Launch Complex 46. <\/p>\n\n\n

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A documentary about growing up in Cocoa Beach by local Nancy Yasecko. She briefly dated my friend Bill in high school. Her father was an eccentric missile man and drove a very odd car with a fiberglass bubble on it (I think it was a Corvair). Anyway, she talks about how we would walk in single file to the nearby beach to watch the launches. I now live a short walk from that beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We would watch the rockets launch, knowing that many of our fathers (and perhaps mothers) were responsible for what we saw. Sometimes they would blow up! That was cool. But it was very satisfying to see them disappear into the blue sky, which was more often the case.<\/p>\n\n\n

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As a young boy growing up in this setting, I was enthralled with everything space. I especially enjoyed reading about the adventures of Buck Rodgers in the 25th century!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was very curious why Buck could land his spaceship and we had not. I guess we had not figured that part out yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That turned out to be true. But who would have thought that it would be done by a billionaire rather than my dad and his buddies!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The New Glenn booster is sitting on Jeff Bezos’ mother, Jackie. She sure must be proud of her son. Prounder perhaps than his ex-wife, MacKenzie. After the dick pics, she gave a big chunk of her divorce settlement to foolish things such as helping people instead of huge, powerfuyl phalic symbols. Ha!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

When I first moved back to the area, SpaceX finally succeeded in landing their booster after six tries. Ten years later Blue Origin does it with their second launch. Still not sure what took them so long but I look forward to seeing more of them. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Billionaire Row at Port Canaveral. Blue Orign on the left, SpaceX on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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