New Shepard returns to flight
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 2:16 PM ET (1916 GMT)
Blue Origin's New Shepard completed its first suborbital flight in more than 15 months on Tuesday. The vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas test site at 11:42 am EST (1642 GMT), reaching a peak altitude of 107 kilometers before landing about 10 minutes later. The vehicle carried 33 research payloads and 38,000 postcards from an educational nonprofit organization, but no people. The flight was the first for New Shepard since a mishap in September 2022 on another payload-only flight that was blamed on the structural failure of the vehicle's engine nozzle. The company said it would resume crewed flights of New Shepard "soon" but was not more specific.
Blue Origin's New Shepard completed its first suborbital flight in more than 15 months on Tuesday. The vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas test site at 11:42 am EST (1642 GMT), reaching a peak altitude of 107 kilometers before landing about 10 minutes later. The vehicle carried 33 research payloads and 38,000 postcards from an educational nonprofit organization, but no people. The flight was the first for New Shepard since a mishap in September 2022 on another payload-only flight that was blamed on the structural failure of the vehicle's engine nozzle. The company said it would resume crewed flights of New Shepard "soon" but was not more specific.
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