Items tagged with new shepard

by Paul Lilly - Wed, Oct 13, 2021

Watch William 'Capt. Kirk' Shatner Blast Off On Blue Origin And Set An Amazing Record

In his role as Captain James T. Kirk, William Shatner has fictionally traveled to the far reaches of outer space, boldly going to places where no Earthlings had been before, encountering strange, wondrous, and sometimes bizarre adventures along the way. That was all make believe, of course. However, the captain of the... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, May 10, 2016

Watch Blue Origin’s Surreal Onboard View Of New Shepard Rocket Booster Landing

Reusability is the name of game with rockets from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Back in early April, the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket booster made its third suborbital flight (reaching a height of 339,138 feet) and successfully touched down on its landing pad at the end of the mission. At the time, we were... Read more...

by Brandon Hill - Tue, Nov 24, 2015

Blue Origin Completes Successful Reusable Rocket Landing As Commercial Space Travel Blasts Forward

Elon Musk’s SpaceX hasn’t been able to find complete success when it comes to testing a completely reusable rocket for commercial space travel, but SpaceX’s failures were just greater incentive for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. You see, Bezos owns a private space firm called Blue Origin, and while it seems to fly under radar... Read more...

by Joshua Gulick - Wed, Apr 08, 2015

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin To Begin Suborbital Rocket Flights Later This Year

It won’t be that long before space is a vacation destination. Space flight company Blue Origin announced that it has completed the rocket engine for its New Shepard spaceship and plans to begin tests before the end of the year. “The BE-3 has now been fired for more than 30,000 seconds over the course of 450 tests,”... Read more...