{"id":17503,"date":"2021-08-26T17:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origins-new-shepard-spaceship-joins-the-pantheon-of-model-rockets\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T17:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:35:53","slug":"blue-origins-new-shepard-spaceship-joins-the-pantheon-of-model-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origins-new-shepard-spaceship-joins-the-pantheon-of-model-rockets\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spaceship joins the pantheon of model rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_638617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638617\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-638617\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard-630x354.jpg\" alt=\"New Shepard model rocket\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard-1260x709.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/210826-newshepard.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-638617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Estes\u2019 New Shepard model rocket uses standard model-rocket launch equipment, including a single C6-3 or C6-5 engine. (Estes Industries via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rocket fans will soon be able to follow in Jeff Bezos\u2019 footsteps when it comes to ownership of a suborbital New Shepard space vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Just be warned that everything will be scaled down: The Blue Origin New Shepard model rocket unveiled this week by Estes Industries will be 1\/66th scale, and capable of going up 400 feet rather than 62 miles.<\/p>\n<p>At least the price is scaled down as well: Instead of paying out a billion dollars a year to support Blue Origin\u2019s development program for New Shepard as well as the orbital-class New Glenn rocket and advanced projects, buyers will be asked to shell out a mere $69.99.<\/p>\n<p>Estes is partnering with the Club for the Future, Blue Origin\u2019s educational foundation, to offer New Shepard as a STEM teaching tool. A portion of the sales proceeds will go to the club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that the new&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Estes<\/span> New Shepard model sparks the imagination of future space explorers and inspires them to carve out their own role in helping to invent the future of life in space,\u201d Josef Reinke, director of the Club for the Future, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Estes\u2019 pint-sized New Shepard is available for pre-order from Blue Origin\u2019s online store as well as Estes\u2019 website, with delivery anticipated in November.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Introducing the New Shepard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y_YRr1R1dH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Each box will include a Club for the Future postcard for kids to draw or write their vision of how they see the future of life in space. The postcards can then be sent to the Club for the Future, which will put them on a New Shepard flight and then return them to the senders with an official-looking \u201cFlown to Space\u201d stamp.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s announcement comes a little more than a month after Bezos and three crewmates took a suborbital ride to space in a New Shepard capsule, and coincides with today\u2019s successful uncrewed flight of a different New Shepard known as the RSS H.G. Wells.<\/p>\n<p>New Shepard isn\u2019t the first commercial rocket to be turned into a model rocket: A decade ago, Estes sold SpaceShipOne model rockets that paid tribute to that rocket plane\u2019s history-making spaceflights in 2004. And for a while, SpaceX sold model-rocket versions of its workhorse Falcon 9.<\/p>\n<p>Both those kits are now collectors\u2019 items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estes\u2019 New Shepard model rocket uses standard model-rocket launch equipment, including a single C6-3 or C6-5 engine. (Estes Industries via YouTube) Rocket fans will soon be able to follow in Jeff Bezos\u2019 footsteps when it comes to ownership of a suborbital New Shepard space vehicle. 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