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Blue OriginLaunch SuccessfulSuborbitalNew Shepard
Launched 2021-04-14 16:49:15 UTCWest Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch, Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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Reached Suborbital
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NS-4 Landed
The first stage landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas, on its 2nd flight.
Blue Origin
2nd
launch this year
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
2nd
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
89 d 23 h
since the pad's previous launch
Fifteenth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.
During the mission, astronaut operational exercises will be conducted in preparation for human space flight. The primary operations will entail Blue Origin personnel standing in as astronauts entering into the capsule prior to launch. These astronauts will climb the launch tower, get into their seats, buckle their harnesses, and conduct a communications check from their seat with CAPCOM, the Capsule Communicator. The tower operations team will prepare the capsule cabin for launch and then briefly close the capsule hatch. The astronauts will then exit the capsule prior to launch.
Post-landing, the astronauts will get inside the capsule to rehearse hatch opening, and exiting the capsule at the landing site.
Inside the capsule during the flight will be Mannequin Skywalker, along with more than 25,000 postcards on behalf of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s nonprofit organization
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
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Height
15m
Diameter
3.7m
Liftoff thrust
490kN
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