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New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by Blue Origin. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became the first American to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and landings.
Both Blue Origin and SpaceX also have additional reusable launch vehicles under development. Blue is developing the first stage of the orbital New Glenn LV to be reusable, with first flight planned for no earlier than 2024. SpaceX has a new super-heavy launch vehicle under development for missions to interplanetary space.
The launch vehicle is designed to be fully reusable, ... 's orbit approximately one year after launch. In 2024, Blue Origin received funding from the USSF to assess ...
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket is on track for its first launch before the end ... reusable launch vehicle that can loft 100 metric tons to low Earth orbit and 50 metric tons to a lunar transfer ...
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket is set to send another six people to space, including Emily Calandrelli, Sharon and Marc Hagle, James Russell, Henry Wolfond, and Austin Litteral.
New Shepard, the company's only active rocket that can carry humans and cargo on short trips to and from the brim of space, lifted off from Blue Origin's remote Van Horn, Texas launch site at 10: ...
The first hotfire-tested Blue Origin BE-4 rocket engine, serial number 103, at the 34th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 2018, showing the liquid methane inlet side of the engine. The New Glenn is a 7 m (23 ft) diameter two-stage orbital launch vehicle with a reusable first stage [23] and an expendable second stage. [43]
The rocket, which is set to fly for the first time later this year, is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle designed to lift 45 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.