01 October 2021
FAA investigating Blue Origin safety procedures after open letter from ex-employees
... on to say that safety concerns about Blue Origin’s New Shepard crewed suborbital flight, which took place on 20 July...Blue Origin crewed flight. Scheduled for launch on 12 October, New Shepard is expected to loft Chris Boshuizen, co-founder of Planet,...
January 2021
Taking out the trash in space
... flown and operated on Flight NS-12 of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle This test marked the longest flight Trash to Gas...the hardware and a second payload is slated for a suborbital New Shepard flight in 2021. The OSCAR payload was flown to the ...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
... a valuable glimpse into potential exploration-enabling resources present on these tiny worlds.” The experiment performed on the New Shepard, which incidentally was the seventh consecutive test flight of this particular rocket booster and the 13th...
02 July 2021
Branson plans space trip ahead of rival Bezos
... part of the first crewed flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle on 20 July. Bezos made announcements of ... female space pioneer Wally Funk would be joining him on his New Shepard flight as an "honoured guest". “I can’t tell people who...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... become the first team to carry a passenger across the Karman line, marking the edge of space, on their New Shepard vehicle. These technologies promise to reduce the price and increase access to low Earth orbit, but it’s where...
15 January 2020
Rising sea levels pose threat to KSC
... spaceflight company, which is pumping a billion dollars into the Space Coast area as a launch base for its New Shepard rocket, is taking no chances. The company leases Launch Complex 36 and is currently building it both out and upwards...
