Blue Origin venture gives notice for spaceship flight test this week

[RDoug]

Blue Origin venture gives notice for spaceship flight test this week

• Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, has alerted the Federal Aviation Administration that it’s planning to put a brand-new New Shepard rocket ship through an uncrewed flight test at its West Texas spaceport this week.

 

[mshunter]

So, what, is Amazon now going to deliver packages via rocket ships?

 

[RDoug]

Blue Origin launched its first rocket in over a year, and nailed the landing

• Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, said that on Tuesday an updated New Shepard booster launched, landed, and successfully deployed the unmanned Crew Capsule 2.0. It was the rocket company's first launch in 14 months.
• New Shepard's booster — named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard — reached nearly 61 miles above sea level before the capsule separated. The booster than returned to land on a concrete pad, smoothly coming back to Earth at about 7 miles per hour.

 

[NovemberEcho]

Inside the crew capsule was a test dummy named Mannequin Skywalker