New Shepard is 60 feet (18.3 meters) tall, and a fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combination that cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft. Central Time (1312 UTC), following a short delay, from a remote facility called Launch Site One, about 25 miles north of the nearest town, Van Horn. New Shepard has flown 15 uncrewed flights to test it for safety mechanisms. Today, the firm is developing a heavy-lift orbital rocket called New Glenn, along with a Moon lander that it hopes to contract to NASA. And I think my fellow crewmates feel good about it, too."īezos, 57, founded Blue Origin in 2000 with the goal of one day building floating space colonies with artificial gravity where millions of people will work and live. We'll see how I feel when I'm strapped into my seat," Bezos said in an interview with Fox Business Network on Monday. Funk was one of the so-called Mercury 13 group of women who trained to become NASA astronauts in the early 1960s, but was not able to participate due to her gender. Tuesday's crew includes Bezos, along with his brother Mark, female aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutchman and last-minute fill-in for the winner of a $28 million (€23.8 million) charity auction.įunk, who is 82, and Daemen became the oldest and youngest people to reach space. Bezos' Blue Origin is due to fly higher than Branson, with a distance of 62 miles compared to 53 miles for Virgin Galactic. Just over a week ago, Branson launched his first successful suborbital flight from New Mexico through his competing space tourism company Virgin Galactic.
Their capsule landed in the Texan desert, after coming back down to Earth with the help of giant parachutes. The flight also coincided with the 52nd anniversary of the first Moon landing. The crew gave each other high-fives and hugged friends and family.īezos went on a 11-minute trip to the edge of space, just beyond the Earth's limits, with a crew of four from a desert site in West Texas. The company posted on Twitter that the booster failure on the flight triggered the escape system, which functioned as designed to fire the capsule to successfully separate it from the rocket.īillionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin saw its first major incident on Monday, ever since it launched its first commercial flight services for the public in 2021.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp."A very happy group of people in this capsule," Bezos said after touching down. The FAA added that this is standard practice for all mishap investigations. No injuries or casualties or damage to public property have been reported.įAA will investigate the incident to determine whether the failure of the rocket affected public safety in any capacity before allowing the New Shepard rocket to return to flight. It said that the booster impacted within the designated hazard area, and the capsule did land safely in the Texan desert. The FAA has called the incident a mishap. What does the FAA have to say about the incident?Īmerican Aviation watchdog, Federal Aviation Administration, has grounded the rocket to investigate the incident. A video released by Blue Origin showed the capsule landing in the Texan desert with the help of three parachutes. The rocket's escape system activated as soon as the booster failed, flinging the capsule of the rocket's nose. A live stream of the New Shepard Rocket launch displayed how the engine burst into flames as the rocket reached a height of 29000 feet.
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