New Shepard | NS-8
Launch Successful
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April 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
April 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m. - April 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
April 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m. - April 29, 2018, 5:07 p.m.
NS-8 is Blue Origin's second commercial flight. It carried payloads from various customers on a sub-orbital launch for 3 minutes of microgravity.
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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The NS-3 core stage successfully landed for the second time.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.
Second New Shepard capsule. It is dedicated to uncrewed flights.
Crew Capsule 2.0 Details
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