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Jeff Bezos' Rocket Looks Like A Penis

Rocket Looks Like A Penis
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Crime and Weird News editor, The Huffington Post

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Ground control to Major Johnson.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, successfully launched the New Shepard spaceship on Wednesday, bringing the company one step closer to commercial space flight.

The rocket reached speeds of Mach 3 and an altitude of 307,000 feet before safely landing, the company wrote in a blog post.

Those are some impressive stats that any man would be proud of ... but as Mashable rightly notes, the only thing that anyone really noticed was that New Shepard looks like a penis.

Mashable wasn't the only one who pointed the similarity out:

The rocket was unmanned this time, but the plan is for it to carry up to six people, according to the BBC.

When reached for comment, Blue Origin declined to contribute to the penis discussion.

"Thanks for the opportunity to respond, but Blue Origin has nothing to contribute at this time," the company said in a statement.

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Helping to pave the road for the future of commercial spaceflight, Boeing is hard at work on the research and development of a new space capsule aimed at flying people to the International Space Station. (credit:Boeing)
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Photo of actual Dragon spacecraft after its first successful orbital flight. (credit:SpaceX/Mike Altenhofen)
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An artistic rendition of the Dream Chaser vehicle launching into space. (credit:Sierra Nevada)
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This artist's illustration of the orbital crew-carrying spaceship planned by the private company Blue Origin was included in the firm's NASA Space Act agreement to continue its work on a commercial crew space vehicle. (credit:NASA/Blue Origin)
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Artist's rendition of the Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station. (credit:SpaceX)
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Suborbital SpaceShipTwo glides over Mojave Air and Space Port in California. (credit:TSC)
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