![]() Thirty-six experiments were on board to be exposed to a few minutes of weightlessness. The webcast showed the capsule reaching a maximum altitude of more than 37,000 feet. The rocket usually lands upright on the desert floor and then is recycled for future flights. Escape system performed as designed,” the Kent, Wash.-based company tweeted close to an hour later. “Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. The rocket came crashing down, with no injuries or damage reported, said the FAA, which is in charge of public safety during commercial space launches and landings.īlue Origin’s launch commentary went silent when the capsule catapulted off the rocket Monday morning, eventually announcing: “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. Several minutes later, the capsule parachuted onto the remote desert floor. ![]() The capsule’s emergency launch abort system immediately kicked in, lifting the craft off the top. The New Shepard rocket was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames shot out from around the single engine at the bottom. The rockets are now grounded pending the outcome of an investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration said. No one was aboard the Blue Origin flight, which used the same kind of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after liftoff Monday in the first launch accident for Jeff Bezos’ space travel company, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute to safety.
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