This morning, Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight venture Blue Origin will send its suborbital rocket to space on its 11th test flight — part of the company’s ongoing efforts to ready the vehicle for flying passengers. There won’t be any human riders on this launch, but the vehicle will be carrying dozens of research payloads to the edge of space and back for NASA and other organizations.
Blue Origin’s ride for future space tourists is the New Shepard — a reusable rocket designed to fly 62 miles or 100 kilometers above the Earth, crossing the boundary to space. At that height, any passengers on board would get to experience just a few minutes of weightlessness before coming back to the planet’s surface.
To get to that altitude, the rocket takes...
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