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Old September 12th 16, 06:16 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Rob[_8_]
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Default Jeff Bezos' secretive rocket company just revealed its plans totower over SpaceX

wrote:
"The largest of the two new rockets, called the "New Glenn 3-stage," is an
enormous 23 feet in diameter (about half the length of a school bus), 313 feet
tall (close to the height of the Apollo moon rockets), and will spew out 3.85
million pounds of thrust — about half as powerful as NASA's Saturn V launcher.


Size in feet and weight in pounds? Is it designed in the 19th century?