New Shepard | NS-17
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Aug. 26, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
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Aug. 26, 2021, 1:35 p.m. - Aug. 26, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
Aug. 26, 2021, 1:35 p.m. - Aug. 26, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
The First Human Flight crew at a post-flight press conference after a successful flight to space and back. (July 20, 2021) Blue Origin safely launches four commercial astronauts to space and back Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard’s first human flight today with four private citizens...
Seventeenth flight of New Shepard. It will carry a second NASA lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.
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Launch delayed by 24 hours
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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.
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NS3 successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its eighth flight.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.
Seventh Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule 2.0
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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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