Tag: New Shepard-11
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Blue Origin ‘one step closer’ to human flights after successful suborbital launch
This image from Blue Origin’s webcast of Thursday’s mission shows the New Shepard’s capsule just before touchdown in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Taking another step toward flying space tourists to the edge of space, Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin again flew its New Shepard suborbital booster Thursday with a package of microgravity research…
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Blue Origin readies reusable suborbital launcher for another flight
File photo of a New Shepard booster landing after a previous mission. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin teams in West Texas are preparing for another launch of the company’s reusable New Shepard suborbital rocket Thursday to loft dozens of microgravity research payloads to the edge of space. The single-stage rocket is set for liftoff from…