Blue Origin Successfully Launched Tourist Rocket New ShepardPosted on July 18, 2018 by Lucy Iantosca
This morning near Van Horn, Texas, Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket for an escape mission which turned out to be successful. Jeff Bezos’ big plan to bring tourists up to space is off to a good start.
While Jeff Bezos is still trying to figure out how he will give away some of his enormous fortune, Blue Origin pulled off another successful test flight of the sub-orbital New Shepard, a crew spacecraft on top of a rocket booster. Named after the first American who went to space, Alan Shepard, the rocket was launched for what was the ninth overall test flight. The goal of this new mission was to test a high altitude escape motor.
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https://www.protoexpress.com/blog/blue-origin-launched-tourist-rocket-new-shepard/Video of the whole mission:
Mission Profile at 27:27
Liftoff at 35:15
About 42:00 to watch final descent and touchdown of the booster! No longer available
