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Billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin capsule was launched higher up in the sky than ever before, bringing the company closer to sending tourists into space.
The New Shepard spacecraft took off on Wednesday, becoming the ninth successful test flight of Blue Origin
With a pbadenger manikin named "Skywalker Manikin" and a bundle of scientific experiments on board, the capsule reached an altitude of almost 400,000 feet
It is part of a safety system designed to save lives once space tourists board for suborbital leaps.
The booster and the capsule – which have already flown before – have landed successfully. The flight lasted 11 minutes
million. Bezos said in a tweet: "Crew Capsule looks great even after being pushed hard by the escape test.The astronauts would have had an exhilarating ride and a safe landing.
"Great engineering and lucky boots worked again."
Blue Origin has not yet announced when it will start selling tickets or how many flights will cost, but commentator Ariane Cornell has promised that it will be soon. ] Mr. Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, aims to send people and payloads into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida. These missions will be based on the New Glenn rocket, more powerful and still in development.
He named his rockets after NASA's original astronauts, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American to orbiter around the Earth.
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