Blue Origin Notches Partial Success In First Flight Of New Shepard

Credit: Blue Origin
Blue Origin said April 30 it sent its New Shepard suborbital human spacecraft to an altitude of 307,000 ft. over West Texas on April 29, with a “perfect” first developmental flight of the crew capsule, but loss of the reusable cryogenic booster to a hydraulic system failure. The secretive Seattle...

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