New Shepard | Blue Origin
Pressurized crew capsule with room for six people, environmentally controlled for comfort, and among the largest windows to have flown in space. Aerodynamically designed to stabilize the booster and reduce fuel use on its flight back to Earth. Deploy from the ring fin to reduce the booster's speed by half on its descent from space.
New Shepard - Wikipedia
New Shepard is a fully reusable, vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) space vehicle composed of two principal parts: a pressurized crew capsule and a launch rocket that Blue Origin often calls a booster or propulsion module. [12]
Fly to Space | Blue Origin
Gaze upon Earth from giant windows comprising one-third of the capsule’s surface area. The spacious and pressurized capsule seats six and is climate-controlled for comfort. Our on-site astronaut training program is meticulously designed to teach everything you’ll need to know for a safe spaceflight.
NS-24 | New Shepard - Everyday Astronaut
Dec 17, 2023 · The Crew Capsule. New Shepard’s Crew Capsule has the capability to carry up to six people in a large pressurized 15 m 3 (530 ft 3) interior. Blue Origin’s main goal is to open up the experience of microgravity and the view of the curvature of the Earth to the general public.
Blue Origin Debuts Second Human-Rated New Shepard Rocket …
Oct 13, 2024 · The new crew capsule is named RSS Kármán Line. The vehicle features technology upgrades to improve the vehicle’s performance and reusability, an updated livery, and accommodations for payloads on the booster. New Shepard remains one of the most sustainable rockets ever to fly to space.
Blue Origin launches next New Shepard spacecraft on uncrewed …
Oct 23, 2024 · Blue Origin completed a launch and landing of an uncrewed flight test Wednesday morning for its next New Shepard spacecraft that will one day take humans on suborbital trips high above Earth.
Blue Origin launches ninth crewed New Shepard suborbital mission
Nov 22, 2024 · The New Shepard capsule R.S.S. First Step, making its 11 th flight, landed about 10 minutes after liftoff, two and a half minutes after the booster landed, completing its 12 th flight.
Blue Origin launches New Shepard capsule, resuming sub-orbital …
Dec 19, 2023 · Blue Origin, the rocket company owned by Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, successfully launched an unpiloted New Shepard capsule to the edge of space and back Tuesday, the first flight of the...
New Shepard Vehicle Overview - RocketLaunch.org
Apr 28, 2015 · The New Shepard, developed by Blue Origin, is a fully reusable suborbital launch vehicle designed for space tourism. It consists of a booster rocket and a crew capsule, capable of carrying up to six passengers or cargo above the Kármán line, the edge of space.
Blue Origin constructs new New Shepard rocket-capsule combo …
Oct 7, 2024 · Blue Origin has had only one working New Shepard rocket booster since a 2022 explosion took out one of the two it had been using. A replacement booster along with a new crew-capable capsule is...