Brendan Byrne
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365 appearances
43 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Brendan Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And really, this was supposed to be a critical flight of New Glenn, which NASA is going to be relying on Blue Origin to use to get a lot of these landers and all of this equipment that it wants to get to the moon for its moon base.
So
As you mentioned at the start, yeah, this is very bad timing, which certainly could have some impact on the schedule.
It's not just the rocket that they lost.
It's the launch pad itself.
It's the only launch pad that Blue Origin has for New Glenn.
And launch pads are almost as complex as the rockets themselves.
Now...
Blue Origin came out and said that damage wasn't as bad as they thought, and they are going to be able to get back to flying by the end of this year.
NASA seems confident that that will happen and they will get to the bottom of it.
But you have to be a little bit skeptical when you saw that big boom in some of the pictures that you see coming back from the pad.
So the crew is three spaceflight veterans and one rookie.
So it is being commanded by NASA's Randy Bresnik.
He's flown to space twice.
His pilot is coming from the European Space Agency from Italy, Luca Parmitano.
He had a very scary moment during a spacewalk in his last time at the International Space Station.
His helmet filled up with water and he ran the risk of potentially drowning in space, which is absolutely terrifying, but was able to get back into the hatch and fix all that.
Frank Rubio is from NASA as the mission specialist.
He also ran into an issue last time he was in space.
He flew up on a Russian Soyuz capsule that sprung a leak.
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