![]() ![]() ![]() 23 flight made history, with the New Shepard completing the first vertical rocket-assisted landing of a vehicle that flew into space.īezos wrote on the company’s website that engineers replaced a few components on the vehicle since November, such as the crew capsule’s parachutes and the rocket’s pyro igniters. While the New Shepard did not attain the speed required to reach Earth orbit, it did pass the internationally-recognized boundary of space of about 62 miles, or 100 kilometers. The crew capsule - a testbed for Blue Origin’s future space tourism ambitions - parachuted to a landing in the West Texas desert. The rocket carried an unoccupied crew capsule, which separated from the New Shepard after its hydrogen-burning BE-3 engine switched off. The company did not release the duration of Friday’s flight, but a launch following a similar profile Nov. The hydrogen-fueled single stage rocket took off and landed at a West Texas test facility owned by ’s Jeff Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000.īlue Origin said the rocket reached a peak altitude of 333,582 feet, or 101.7 kilometers, on its short up-and-down test flight. ![]() Two months after it flew into space and landed smoothly, Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard booster made the trip again Friday, proving it can be reused for future space tourism jaunts and laying the groundwork for a future commercial satellite launcher, the company said. ![]()
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