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This page records New Shepard | NS-20 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITECorn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Mission
NS-20 is the fourth crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers.
- Launch vehicle
- New Shepard
- Mission type
- Tourism
- Destination orbit
- Suborbital
- Spacecraft
- RSS First Step
- Destination
- Suborbital
- Launch pad
- West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
- Provider
- Blue Origin
- Recovery
- Return to Launch Site, NS4 has landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its sixth flight. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
New Shepard
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
- Height
- 15 m
- Diameter
- 3.7 m
- Stages
- 1
- Recorded launches
- 38
- First flight
- 2015-04-29
Recorded timing
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3h 20m windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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