Blue Origin launches, lands New Shepard spaceship

The undated photograph obtained courtesy of Blue Origin in an undisclosed place shows the New Shepard booster.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space transportation company, Blue Origin, successfully launched a New Shepard spaceship from its launch site in west Texas on Wednesday.

The rocket's booster and capsule were successfully recovered back at its launch site. This specific booster used has been now recovered for the third time, a key step in its drive to make reusable rockets, the company says.

The New Shepard rocket, which is designed to carry six passengers, blasted off from a launch site in Van Horn, West Texas and is the sixth successful launching and landing.

Blue Origin is among a handful of companies developing unpiloted vehicles to carry cargo and paying passengers into space.

(Source: Reuters)


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