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Blue Origin New Shepard Flies to Space, Lands Safely

submitted by rich_magnet

9 years ago

Blue Origin has successfully flown their New Shepard booster and spacecraft to space and recovered 100% of the vehicle. This is a ballistic flight to what is officially defined as space (>=100km) whereupon the capsule separates from the booster to lands under parachute. What's most interesting about this flight, however, is that they _succesfully_ landed their booster under rocket power, with the assistance of aerodynamic fins, active maneuvering fins, braking fins, deployable landing gear and a gimbaled motor. Take that SpaceX!

“Full reuse is a game changer, and we can’t wait to fuel up and fly again” founder Jeff Bezos said in a statement. It should also be noted that this is a spacecraft designed to fly human passengers to suborbital space, and is on track to do so before other competitors, although Blue Origin has not stated when New Shepherd will be ready for human occupants.

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See their previous flight here:
http://videosift.com/video/Blue-Origin-Succesfully-Launches-Worlds-Most-Phallic-Rocket

I used to want to build a "spaceship" with my father when I was a kid. I loved the snow-speeders from Empire Strikes Back. I remember asking my dad where you got the lasers from, and if you could pick them up at the hardware store like everything else.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, November 24th, 2015 9:08am PST - promote requested by eric3579.

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*ftw *happy

Adding video to channels (Ftw, Happy) - requested by ant.

New Name: Big Johnson and Purple Helmut

*Quality science.

Invocations (quality) cannot be called by iaui because iaui is not privileged - sorry.

I got you *quality

*Quality science.

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by eric3579.

KrazyKat42 says...

Real? If it is then I am amazed.

Real except for the simulation part they added in the middle but it states that in the bottom right corner.

Also the thumbnail looks very unreal, but I think it's actually a photo. Some of the landing angles look unreal, too, but are just sped up a bit.

What 400 Very Happy Rocket Scientists Look Like has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.

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