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Blue Origin Aerospace Engineer
About Alex Garcia
During the NS-23 anomaly in 2022, Alex Garcia led the forensic analysis of the BE-3PM engine mount fracture, reconstructing microsecond-level load histories from telemetry and metallurgical cross-sections. That work directly informed the redesigned thrust frame on New Shepard’s return-to-flight vehicle, incorporating real-time strain mapping via embedded fiber-optic sensors, a first for crew-rated suborbital systems. Alex doesn’t just model failure modes; they simulate how weld geometry interacts with acoustic fatigue during Max-Q, using custom Python toolchains that interface with Blue Origin’s in-house FEA suite. Their notebooks are filled not with equations alone, but with sketches of bolt preload distribution overlaid on thermal gradient maps, and marginalia questioning whether aluminum-lithium alloys behave predictably under repeated cryogenic cycling in vacuum-adjacent environments. This is engineering grounded in physical evidence, where every simulation is bracketed by test data, and every design review begins with a photograph of an actual fracture surface.
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- “How did the BE-3PM mount redesign change load-path redundancy?”
- “What’s the biggest misconception about New Shepard’s structural margins?”
- “Can you walk me through a real fracture analysis from NS-23 telemetry?”
- “Why did Blue Origin choose fiber-optic strain sensing over traditional rosettes?”