By carrying people and equipment into suborbital space within the year, New Shepard hopes to directly compete with Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo, which hopes to send founder Richard Branson on the first commercial spaceflight as early as this spring. This was the 14th successful test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Blue Origin spacecraft touches down safely after a successful flight to space. The capsule, slowed by three parachutes, safely landed nearby. After a few tense seconds of floating only feet above the landing pad, New Shepard softly touched down in its proper upright position. A self landing-rocket designed by Blue Origin, a company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has had a successful test flight in Texas, US. As the rocket plummeted from the sky, it deployed its drag fans to slow its decent before reigniting its boosters to bring it to a hover just above the ground. The awardees for NASA’s Human Landing System contracts are Blue Origin of Kent, Washington, Dynetics (a Leidos company) of Huntsville, Alabama, and SpaceX of Hawthorne, California. After the capsule and the rocket separated, the capsule continued its journey upward until it reached an altitude of more than 65 miles (105 kilometers), eventually making its way back down to Earth.Īs for the rocket itself, its landing went just about perfectly. During yesterday’s test, the rocket - carrying a capsule outfitted with six passenger seats and a test dummy named “Mannequin Skywalker” - launched without a hitch, quickly climbing into the sky.
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