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Blue Origin successfully carried out a test of the escape system of its New Shephard rocket, in the west Texas desert on Wednesday. The spacecraft is intended for use by civilians wishing to travel to the edge of space.The system was devised to bring passengers safely back down to earth if a failure occurs inflight. Blue Origin is set to offer space tourism services by 2018.
Earth's wealthiest man Jeff Bezos says he's "going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future" as he returns from a space flight with the crew of his firm Blue Origin's first crewed space mission. The crew included 82-year-old barrier-breaking woman aviator Wally Funk and and 18-year-old Dutch teen Oliver Daemen. Funk and Daemen became the oldest and youngest astronauts, respectively.
One space-tourism company really believes that what goes up, must come down.
Blue Origin, the company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, releases video showing its new rocket taking off and then landing safely in West Texas. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Blue Origin, a startup space company owned by Amazon.com chief Jeff Bezos, launches an experimental suborbital spaceship. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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