Tag: New Shepard-12

  • Blue Origin launches New Shepard on 12th test flight

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster blasts off Wednesday from West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched a reusable New Shepard rocket Wednesday, boosting an unpiloted capsule on a successful up-and-down flight to space in the 12th test of a spacecraft designed to carry “space tourists”…

  • Blue Origin preps for suborbital launch

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    EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated at 9:15 a.m. CST (10:15 a.m. EST; 1515 GMT) after Blue Origin scrubbed Tuesday’s launch attempt. File photo of a New Shepard rocket at Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas before a previous flight. Credit: Blue Origin After poor weather scrubbed a launch attempt Tuesday, Blue Origin plans to launch the 12th…