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Launch detail
Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch (TX)
Blue Origin • New Shepard • West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.
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NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.
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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New Shepard vehicle #4 is the fourth flight vehicle of the New Shepard suborbital rocket. It was used for Blue Origin's first crewed launches.
First Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule 2.0 to carry human passengers. This capsule is outfitted with improvements to environmental features such as acoustics and temperature regulation inside the capsule, crew display panels, and speakers with a microphone and push-to-talk button at each seat.
The RSS First Step capsule successfully touched down at Blue Origin's Corn Ranch facility
