12-17-2017, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rtuinila
I think it was some kind of poster they used as a sunscreen over the window. But I could be wrong.
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After things quiet down a bit ("e-mail wise") at Blue Origin www.blueorigin.com , I imagine they'd be happy to solve this puzzle (it would be funny--but not surprising--if they've been getting queries about the window oddity ever since they posted that video online :-) ). It also got me thinking:
They could sell advertising space on the sides of the booster *and* the capsule, even on the windows (although not on all of them, except maybe Sun-facing ones). The ads that are applied to buses and cars often cover the windows as well as the body panels, yet the windows can still be "seen through," just a bit less brightly; Sun-facing capsule windows could have the ads over them, to make it somewhat easier to see inside the capsule when the otherwise unfiltered sunlight is streaming in. Also:
I was slightly disappointed to not see (although it might have been elsewhere in the cabin) the "Box of Rocks" asteroid regolith experiment (it had its own internal observation camera) that has flown at least once--and possibly multiple times--on previous New Shepard test flights. |