Terry Alldredge

Father, son, husband, leader, and follower. Currently interested in space travel and mass manufacturing.

[Dave Limp @davill]

Quite a sight to see the progress this team has made since May 28. Wreckage recovery from start to finish was completed in 9 days, and all debris has been cleared from Launch Complex 36. Huge shoutout to the team who have been working 7x24. We have started reconstruction and still plan to fly again this year. Will have more details on the new conop soon.

[Dave Limp @davill]

I've come to appreciate boring hotfires. Our BE-7 team recently completed a 2,500 second hotfire test at 10klbf on a development engine, setting the record for the longest-duration turbo pump-fed liquid rocket engine hotfire. This built on some of the most rigorous testing in the history of propulsion, with the previous record set by the RS-25 engine that powered the Space Shuttle. They recorded two 2,017 second tests in 1988. It's not lost on us that we're following a path those engineers blazed, and we're grateful for it. Grab the popcorn and enjoy watching 41 minutes of hotfire goodness.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

BE-7 Flight Engine 3 has completed hotfire testing, verifying engine performance prior to flight. Next, it will head to Lunar Plant 1 to join the lunar lander engine fleet.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Endurance has successfully completed thermal vacuum chamber (TVAC) testing! We're now preparing for our lunar lander's return to Florida.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

✅ Another BE-7 has completed acceptance testing and is now at Lunar Plant 1 in Florida. The high-performance, dual-expander cycle engine supports our Blue Moon lunar landers for the Artemis program and will help power the next era of lunar exploration.

[Terry Alldredge @Talldre1]

@NASAAdmin @SciGuySpace So are we!

[Dave Limp @davill]

Endurance, our MK1 lunar lander, has entered Chamber A for approximately 11 days of TVAC testing to simulate the extreme thermal and vacuum conditions it will experience in space and on the lunar surface. Thanks to the team @NASA_Johnson for the collaboration as we reach this critical step on our path to the Moon.

[Terry Alldredge @Talldre1]

Making awesome things is hard, because you must let them go be awesome, maybe far away. I feel that way about my kids, and sometimes engines.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

🌕 Tested on Earth. Bound for the Moon.

The BE-7 engine for our Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander just completed acceptance testing. Two 290-second tests exposed the engine to its full range of thrust and mixture ratios to verify engine performance. The engine is now off to Florida for integration with MK1.

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

@SecWar Huntsville is where America’s rocket program really began--congrats U.S. Space Command 🚀🇺🇸

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

17 minute burn — beautifully boring

[NASA Science @NASAScience_]

After exploring innovative and cost-effective approaches, @NASA has selected @blueorigin to deliver the VIPER rover to the Moon! 🌕 VIPER will search for vital resources like water ice to support a long-term human presence on the lunar surface.

🔗 https://t.co/kOIXqlRj56

[Dave Limp @davill]

Excited to get back to Luxembourg. I look forward to engaging more deeply with suppliers across Europe. We chose the country for its strong investment in space, the government's support for our growth and long-term vision, and its central location. Thank you, Minister of Economy @LexDelles, for the warm welcome today!

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

Apologies for the TLDR, but when you step back, it is kind of wild what we’ve all lived through over the last five years. No wonder so many young people are anxious about the future—the ‘disturbance in the force’ feels stronger by the day.

I don’t have any grand takeaways other than this--the world could use an immediate course correction in the direction of boring--or we may really need those Mars rockets sooner than expected. One thing is for sure--Israel is making a compelling case for Golden Dome.

• A once-in-a-century pandemic shuts the world down. No matter how you view it in hindsight, both allies and adversaries were nearly unified in halting the global economy and banishing society to lockdowns and high-pressure mask & vaccination campaigns.

• We tried to print our way out of the system shock, triggering the most euphoric markets since the dot-com bubble—pre-revenue IPOs reappeared for some reason and people forgot that good companies generally don’t SPAC.

• The digital revolution kicked into overdrive—work-from-home, virtual education traumatized parents, Zoom cocktail parties, Peloton, DoorDash and MS Teams---probably the most painful development.

• Civil unrest emerged alongside deepening social and political divides.

• A disheartening end to the war in Afghanistan—trillions spent, thousands of lives lost and the Taliban is still running the show.

• Market euphoria gave way to historic inflation. Interest rates shot up to cool things down. The tide went out, and the “shitcos” failed. Centralized crypto exchanges gambled customer deposits. Hedge funds weren’t hedged. VC-heavy banks like SVB collapsed, triggering a temporary panic in the regional banking system. The big banks… got even bigger.

• For the first time since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a nuclear superpower launched a full-scale invasion of a neighboring country. The West isolates Russia, and we witness a new asymmetric dynamic in warfare--cheap drones, missile swarms, all playing out in real time on social media.

• The metaverse and Web3 died quickly as the “Magnificent Seven” lead a market rebound on the promise of AI.

• China closes gaps--and maybe pulls ahead--in some of the most strategically important technologies. They tolerate risk, aren’t afraid to steal good ideas and make them better--and operate with a culture that—for all its flaws—just goes out and does big things without dragging decades of baggage behind it.

• Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israeli civilians, takes hostages and triggers a war that pulls in Iranian proxies like the Houthis--disrupting global shipping lanes and igniting a politically charged humanitarian crisis.

• Political winds shift again. A former President—also the frontrunner—is shot in an assassination attempt, the first since Reagan. Thankfully, he survives and is now our 47th President.

• The Pakistani and Indian Air Forces engage in the largest air-to-air exchange in decades. China’s latest fighters and missiles see combat success against contemporary French aircraft—signaling what many already knew--China’s military is approaching peer status.

• Israel launches the most sophisticated and devastating air campaign since Desert Storm—targeting Iranian military and scientific leadership, degrading air defenses, missile systems and nuclear infrastructure..and the conflict may just be getting warmed up.

All in just five years...

Hopefully our defense and policy leaders are paying attention and making some course corrections. Congressional leadership is mostly well-intentioned, but often fights for expensive job programs--exactly the kind of thing an over-consolidated defense industry encourages--even as we stare down an unsustainable $36 trillion national debt. That’s how you end up holding a fleet of battleships during the advent of the aircraft carrier....

Only this time, the analogy breaks down--because as a nation have forgotten how to build ships. So instead, we will have $300 million fighter jets we can’t afford, arriving a decade too late, in quantities that may not even matter—disrupted by million-dollar, hypersonic, laser-equipped drones that our adversaries will likely produce at scale. Until, perhaps, the dark horse Skynet T-1000 shows up.

This is the time--especially in such a politically charged environment--when we need to be finding more ways to come together instead of moving farther apart. A time to be rooting for America and our leadership, not betting on the next Polymarket catastrophe. Because if the next five years look anything like the last, military parades and trade imbalances will be the least of our problems.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

New Glenn has been selected as a National Security Space Launch heavy-lift provider under Phase 3 Lane 2. We’re proud to support U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and serve as an NSSL trusted partner for executing these critical missions. Read more: https://t.co/oWhBBaUL7q

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We’ve submitted our final report and fulfilled our obligations to the FAA regarding the NG-1 mission booster landing attempt. New Glenn launched successfully on January 16, achieving our goal to reach orbit and deploy Blue Ring. Our ambitious attempt to land the booster, "So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance," was unsuccessful due to our three BE-4 engines not re-igniting properly. Our review confirmed that all debris landed in our designated hazard area with no threat to public safety. The report identified seven corrective actions, focusing on propellant management and engine bleed control improvements, which we’re already addressing. We expect to return to flight in late spring and will attempt to land the booster again.

[Dave Limp @davill]

We did it! Orbital. Great night for Team Blue. On to spring and trying again on the landing. (Here is another view!)

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

The Blue Origin launch team is proceeding with New Glenn propellant loading.

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Next stop launch

[Terry Alldredge @Talldre1]

Incredibly proud of this team!

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

A successful hotfire of our fully integrated New Glenn launch vehicle at LC-36! The seven-engine hotfire lasted 24 seconds and marked the first time we operated the entire flight vehicle as an integrated system. Read more: https://t.co/2VEpDNsLs2