Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin successfully launched its New Shepard rocket Tuesday, its first mission since being grounded in September 2022.
The mission, NS-24, seemingly went without a hitch Tuesday morning after a “ground system issue” prompted the aerospace company to delay the launch one day. It used Blue Origin’s site in West Texas for the launch.
“Thank you to our customers who flew important science today to advance our future of living and working in space to benefit Earth,” Blue Origin posted on X.
The suborbital flight lasted 10 minutes and 13 seconds, the company said. The unmanned crew capsule climbed as high as roughly 66 miles above ground.
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Blue Origin said 33 payloads “from NASA, academia, research institutions and commercial companies” and 38,000 student-written postcards traveled on the reusable rocket.
NASA said it spent roughly three minutes in microgravity.
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