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Blue Origin - New Shepard’s 8th Test Flight Live Now
Topic Started: Apr 29 2018, 08:06 AM (95 Views)
George K
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUV53Nn3PhA&ab_channel=BlueOrigin


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From Corn Ranch - roughly 100 miles SE of El Paso, Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Shepard

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The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL),[1] suborbital crewed rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.[2] Blue Origin is owned and led by Amazon.com founder and businessman Jeff Bezos and aerospace engineer Rob Meyerson.

The name New Shepard makes reference to the first American astronaut in space, Alan Shepard, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, who ascended to space on a suborbital trajectory similar to that planned for New Shepard.[3]

Prototype engine and vehicle flights began in 2006, while full-scale engine development started in the early 2010s and was complete by 2015.[4] Uncrewed flight testing of the complete New Shepard vehicle (propulsion module and space capsule) began in 2015. Flights with test passengers are planned for 2018,[5] with commercial passenger flights initially planned to begin in 2018 as well.[6][7]

On 23 November 2015, after reaching 100.5 km (62.4 mi) altitude (outer space), the New Shepard booster successfully performed a powered vertical soft landing, the first time a booster rocket had returned from space to make a successful vertical landing.[8][9] The test program continued in 2016 and 2017 with four additional test flights made with the same vehicle (NS2) in 2016[10] and the first test flight of the new NS3 vehicle made in 2017.[11] The first crewed test flights are planned for 2018.[5]

As of April 2018, Blue was expecting the first human-carrying test flight to occur before the end of 2018, but had not announced any date for when tickets would begin to be sold.[12]


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Corn Ranch is a spaceport in the West Texas town of Van Horn, Texas, where flight tests of the New Shepard are carried out by Blue Origin. The 165,000-acre (670 km²) land parcel was purchased by Internet billionaire Jeff Bezos. The first flight test took place on November 13, 2006 with the goal of providing commercial tourist flights

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Get rid of the stupid holds.

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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"Mannequin Skywalker" LOL.
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