Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight company Blue Origin has announced that the next launch of its New Shepard rocket will take place on October 4th at 10:50AM ET. The company will live stream the event on its website.
This particular launch is meant to test out the “crew escape” system. New Shepard has two main parts: the rocket booster, and a crew capsule on top. Blue Origin hopes to someday send paying customers to space using that capsule, offering a few minutes of weightlessness before returning them to Earth. That means the company has to be ready in case something bad happens to the rocket during the launch.
About 45 seconds into the test, Blue Origin will activate a small rocket engine on the underside of the capsule, which will...
Blue Origin will test its spacecraft’s in-flight escape system on October 4th
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