Wow . After spend the last few days secernate us that its New Shepard rocket was almost certainly going to be destroyed in today ’s in - flight launch escape examination , Blue Origin surprised everybody — even itself — with a unclouded landing of both booster and crew ejector seat .
Moments ago , Blue Origin conducted an in flight testof its launch escapism organisation , dissever a gang ejector seat from its New Shepard relay transmitter at an altitude of 16,000 feet . This test was critical to check that the rocket will be dependable for human rider , whom Blue Origin hopes to start out fly into sub - orbital outer space as early as next year .
Not only did the crew capsule make a blank separation , deploy its parachutes , and land softly in a small cloud of dust back on Earth , but the booster — which everybody await to go splat — preserve on its merry way into suborbital space , after which it succeeded in landing smoothly back on Earth for a fifth meter . That booster is now slated for a well - deserve retirement in a museum .
Although Blue Origin has tested its launching escape system on the launchpad before , this is the first time such a organisation has been test , by anyone , in flight since the 1960s . It was almost too perfect .
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