Reply to post: It's called New Shepard because

Getting metal hunks into orbit used to cost a bomb. Then SpaceX's Falcon 9 landed

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It's called New Shepard because

like the eponymous Alan Shepard, it just goes up, and then down. Oingo Boingo. We did this in the early sixties. It's boring.

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