21 July 2021
Blue Origin launches four commercial astronauts to space and back
...minute of it," even though there wasn't quite enough room in New Shepard for all four of the passengers to do rolls and flips ... became the youngest person to fly in space. New Shepard became the first commercial vehicle under a suborbital reusable...
02 May 2019
Blue Origin's 11th test flight ends in success
...a gravity-dependent procedure). Thanks to a previous flight on New Shepard, Dr. Cuttino has been able to evolve the technology and... and designers. As the first MIT flight with New Shepard, the Space Exploration Initiative is flying several scientific ...
13 October 2021
Blue Origin's second all civilian crew successfully reaches space
...’s hand before they boarded. After pre-launch checks and relaying messages to and from those on aboard, New Shepard blasted off a little later than originally planned at 15:51 GMT pm. Two to three minutes later the capsule and...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... Origin’s Jeff Bezos joined the first crewed flight of the New Shepard from ‘Launch Site One’ in Van Horn, Texas. Among... apogee of a reported 282,000 feet (about 86 km), while New Shepard took its passengers to 351,210 feet (just over 107 km). Blue...
25 November 2015
Historic landing for private rocket company Blue Origin
..., a private company developing vehicles and technologies to enable commercial human space transportation, announced yesterday that its New Shepard space vehicle safely returned to Earth, landing back at the launch site in West Texas after a text book...
March 2022
Space travel and environmental sustainability
...feelings to Jeff Bezos after his brief spaceflight in Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-18: “Everybody in the world needs to do this,” he said...expensive than air travel, it will remain a niche market New Shepard burns about 290 kg of fuel for each of its ...
