It also posted a video Tuesday, complete with a dramatic soundtrack, audio feeds from ground control, footage from the ground and the rocket and renderings of what it will be like when one day, if all goes as planned, the crew capsule carries passengers. The company didn't announce the launch test in advance, and it only issued a press release about the attempt the next day. This is a big game-changer because it totally changes the economics of space travel," he added, comparing expensive rockets that are used only once to flying a 747 across the country and then throwing it away. "Right behind me is the first fully reusable rocket, and we just flew it into space and brought it back and landed it at the launch site. "You've seen a lot of rockets lift off but you've never seen one land," Bezos told Good Morning America's Michael Strahan in an interview live from Texas after the landing. But this time, both the crew capsule (not occupied at this point) and the rocket booster touched back down successfully, and can be reused for future flights. When the company attempted to land its rocket booster in April, a hydraulic problem interfered. The most important part of the test, however, was not the launch, but the gentle, controlled landing. While Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin offer short jaunts to the cosmos, Elon Musk's SpaceX works with another company called Axiom Space to offer longer missions to the International Space Station.Blue Origin, the private space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, launched its New Shepard rocket again on Monday. Other companies offering tourism experiences include Virgin Galactic, which hasn't flown since carrying its founder Richard Branson to the edge of space in July 2021.
Passengers experience a few minutes' weightlessness and observe the curve of the Earth before the capsule re-enters the atmosphere and floats down for a gentle desert landing. Notable passengers include founder Bezos and Star Trek icon William Shatner. In all it has flown 32 people-some as paying customers and others as guests. "With so many launches, so many vehicles, engines and boosters in development across the industry, it should not be that surprising to see events like this," Isaacman added.īlue Origin began flying humans to space on 10-minute there and back rides last year for an unspecified ticket price. The incident marks a setback for both Blue Origin and the nascent space tourism industry.īut billionaire entrepreneur Jareed Isaacman, who chartered a private space mission with SpaceX last year, tweeted "looks like the launch escape system worked well." The capsule then initiated its escape sequence and outsped the booster, which it engulfed in bright yellow flames. The rocket appeared to stall as it experienced the technical issue. The anomaly occurred as the rocket was climbing at 700 miles per hour (1,126 kilometers per hour) at an altitude of about 28,000 feet (8,500 meters). NS-23, which had 36 experiments on board, was first set to launch in late August, but was delayed due to inclement weather. It was the 23rd mission for the New Shepard rocket program, named after the first American in space, and the first to end in failure. No injuries or public property damage have been reported," the FAA added. "The capsule landed safely and the booster impacted within the designated hazard area.
The New Shepard suborbital rockets have been grounded pending an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said, which is standard procedure. Escape system performed as designed," Blue said on its website, noting the rocket "impacted the ground" instead of landing upright as it normally does. "Booster failure on today's uncrewed flight. The incident marked a setback for Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos' company as well as the space tourism sector, though observers were encouraged by the fact that had people been aboard, they would have likely survived.īlue Origin tweeted a short video clip showing the moment when the capsule fired emergency thrusters to separate itself from its booster rocket early, around a minute after launching from the company's base in west Texas.
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