A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket lifts off with a crew of six, together with Laura Shepard Churchley, the daughter of the first American in house Alan Shepard, for whom the spacecraft is known as, from Launch Site One in west Texas, U.S. December 11, 2021.
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The second of the anomaly throughout the New Shepard cargo mission NS-23, in which the booster’s engine failed.
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The New Shepard rocket launches from Blue Origin’s personal facility in West Texas, carrying folks and payloads above 100 kilometers, or greater than 340,000 toes, for a couple minutes of weightlessness. The capsule is flown autonomously, with no human pilot, and floats down with the help of a set of parachutes to land in the Texas desert. The New Shepard rocket booster is reusable, returning to land on a concrete pad close to the launch web site.
To date, Blue Origin has flown 31 folks previous the sting of house with New Shepard.