Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Shepard rocket for an 11th time, as it moves ever closer to conducting paid space tourism flights with humans on board
Today Thursday, May 2 at 8.20 A.M. CST, the reusable rocket lifted off from the company’s test site in West Texas, carrying with it 38 scientific payloads to an altitude of 105 kilometers . This was the fifth flight for this particular rocket, with its last coming onOn top of the rocket was the crew capsule that Blue Origin hopes will start taking humans to space by the end of the year.
These payloads included an experiment from Virginia-based Orbital Medicine, designed to test a medical technology to treat a collapsed lung in weightlessness. There was also an art project from MIT Media Lab, which will attempt to create a drawing in weightlessness using graphite. “By the end of the year we are going to be flying humans on top of this rocket,” said Ariane Cornell, Director of Astronaut and Orbital Sales for Blue Origin in a live stream for the launch.
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