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Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch (TX)
Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
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The first flight of the New Shepard 1 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 93.5 kilometers.
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New Shepard 1 was destroyed on landing during its first flight.
First Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule.
While the test flight itself was deemed a success, The booster stage crashed on landing and was not recovered due to a failure of hydraulic pressure in the vehicle control system during the descent.
The RSS Jules Verne capsule successfully touched down at Blue Origin's Corn Ranch facility
The first flight of the New Shepard 1 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 93.5 kilometers.
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The first flight of the New Shepard 1 booster. The capsule reached an apogee of 93.5 kilometers.
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
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