#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin

3702.776 - 3736.393 Jeff Bezos

We have a solid rocket motor in the base of the crew capsule so that if anything goes wrong on ascent while the main rocket engine is firing, we can ignite this solid rocket motor in the base of the crew capsule and escape from the booster. It's a very challenging system to build, design, validate, test, all of these things. It is the reason that I am comfortable letting anyone go on New Shepard.