{"id":13828,"date":"2018-04-30T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-blue-origin-flies-new-shepard-rocket-for-eighth-time\/"},"modified":"2018-04-30T01:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T17:18:53","slug":"video-blue-origin-flies-new-shepard-rocket-for-eighth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-blue-origin-flies-new-shepard-rocket-for-eighth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Blue Origin flies New Shepard rocket for eighth time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/267120833\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: Blue Origin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard booster, topped with a capsule carrying a dummy dubbed Mannequin Skywalker, took off Sunday from the company\u2019s sprawling test site in West Texas on a 10-minute trip to the edge of space and back.<\/p>\n<p>The hydrogen-fueled rocket lifted off from the test site near Van Horn, Texas, at 12:06 p.m. CDT (1:06 p.m. EDT; 1706 GMT) Sunday, soared to an altitude of 351,000 feet (107 kilometers), then descended back to Earth, slowed by wedge fins and a throttleable BE-3 main engine for a gentle touchdown a couple of miles from the New Shepard\u2019s launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>A crew capsule fastened to the top of the single-stage rocket separated and made its own descent back to Earth, deploying parachutes and firing retro-rockets for landing on the desert floor.<\/p>\n<p>The test flight was another check-up for Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket before the company eventually flies test pilots, and ultimately paying passengers, on the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s mission was the eighth flight of a New Shepard booster, and the second of the company\u2019s third reusable New Shepard vehicle, which debuted in December.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard booster, topped with a capsule carrying a dummy dubbed Mannequin Skywalker, took off Sunday from the company\u2019s sprawling test site in West Texas on a 10-minute trip to the edge of space and back. The hydrogen-fueled rocket lifted off from the test site near Van Horn, Texas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1678,509,291,1046,25,1250,311,493],"class_list":["post-13828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-be-3","tag-blue-origin","tag-commercial-space","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-launch","tag-new-shepard","tag-reusability","tag-space-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}