Blue Origin: Successfully launched the New Shepard rocket, designed for space tourism

    Blue Origin: Successfully launched the New Shepard rocket, designed for space tourism

    Good news for Blue Origin, the space tourism company of the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Indeed the rocket New shepard has successfully completed its 106th test space flight. The rocket made an unmanned flight from a platform in Texas, after separation from the launcher, the capsule reached a height of XNUMX km, thus crossing the Karman Line which marks the ideal border between the atmosphere and Space. the rocket landed correctly as expected.


    Inside the capsule, for now, no passengers but eight experiments developed by the NASA. Success only confirms the company's ambitious plans. According to Arian Cornell - Head of the Astronaut Plan and Sales Office - after this flight, the next capsule which will be sent into space will have the crew on board. Jeff Bezos reiterated, in fact, his intention of wanting to open the doors to space tourism already within the end of the year, if all goes well, even if the ticket price still remains secret.


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