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The test flight took off Wednesday from the company's facilities in Texas at 10:05 am local time. The New Shepard rocket launched the capsule containing NASA products in the suborbital space, reaching an altitude of more than 66 miles. The entire mission lasted 10 minutes and 15 seconds, from launch to touchdown. The rocket, which was on its fourth spaceflight, returned to earth and landed vertically as planned. The parachute capsule landed in the western plain of Texas and was found.
This successful mission is a positive sign for Blue Origin, which has the ambitious goal of launching with men on board before the end of the year. The New Shepard rocket used at Wednesday's launch was badessed for human pbadengers. However, Blue Origin has been talking about crew launches for some time and has not been successful yet. The company was aiming for 2017 for a crewed flight and suggested that she be ready to finish one in 2018, but the two years have been blank and successive.
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