![]() ![]() Blue OriginĪccording to Llanos, Blue Origin engineers tested more than 100 configurations for the capsule shape before settling on one that starts wide at the base and tapers - a bit like a muffin top. ![]() While most spacecraft resemble, in part, male genitalia, New Shepard's wide mushroom-like capsule - and the skinny girth of the booster underneath - are the driving source of recent innuendo.īlue Origin declined Insider's request for comment.īlue Origin's New Shepard capsule parachuting back to Earth. "Jeff also wanted to have the biggest windows in space so people could have an awesome experience," Llanos said, which further increased the size of the capsule. Read more: Compare more than 250,000 salaries from top companies like Amazon, Google and JPMorgan with Insider's Salary Database His group at Embry-Riddle has sent cargo up on previous New Shepard launches in 20. "The main reason the design looks like this is because Jeff's first goal is to send people to space, so everything revolves around having four to six people in the cabin and so maximizing cabin volume," Llanos told Insider. New Shepard's characteristic shape was designed to optimize cabin space for up to six passengers and maximize the rocket's stability when coming back to Earth, according to Pedro Llanos, an engineer and professor of spaceflight operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The New Shepard rocket's tumescent shape was low-hanging fruit to social-media users who were quick to point out the craft's phallic design and wonder whether that design meant its billionaire passenger was compensating for something.īut experts say this suborbital sausage fest was anything but accidental. See more stories on Insider's business page.īlue Origin founder Jeff Bezos flew to the edge of space Tuesday in a company rocket that had a bulbous passenger capsule sitting atop a tall, narrow booster shaft. New Shepard's characteristic design makes it more stable and optimizes cabin space, experts said. ![]() The suborbital rocket has a domed, wide capsule on top for passengers - giving it a phallic profile. Blue Originīillionaire Jeff Bezos went to the edge of space on Tuesday in Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. A view of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. ![]()
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