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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITECorn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Mission
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
- Launch vehicle
- New Shepard
- Mission type
- Suborbital
- 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 successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its second 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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Launch site & orbit
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
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Launch site
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