15 April 2021, 6:41 am EDT By
Jeff Bezos space travel company Blue Origin recently moved forward with their vision of making space tourism accessible with a rehearsal of sorts, wherein they successfully completed their 15
th overall rocket launch.
(Photo : Stefan Kunze)
The capsule, called New Shepard, was launched with the goal of accurately simulating what it would be like for Blue Origin to fly paying passengers into space, according to Space.com. From its very own spaceport in Texas, the company s test flight was the first mission to feature actual personnel inside the spacecraft before launch and after landing.
During the mission, the spacecraft reached a maximum altitude of 347,574 feet above the ground. Aside from the passengers which were all company employees, it had a payload consisting of an instrument-filled dummy which was wittily named Mannequin Skywalker, as well as over 25,000 postcards from students submitted via Club for the Future, which is some sort
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