The mishap occurred as the rocket was travelling nearly 1,126 kph at an altitude of about 28,000 feet. There was no video shown of the rocket - only the capsule - after the failure occurred.
A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
New Shepard s booster engine went out just one-minute and five seconds after the rocket took off. However, the uncrewed capsule instantly activate a safety motor to separate from the failed booster.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, saw its latest rocket launch fail during liftoff this Monday. No humans were aboard the capsule, which separated from the rocket and parachuted to Earth after the mission was aborted. The rocket flew out of control after what the company called an "anomaly."