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New Shepard launches NASA experiments to space, aims for human flights this year

January 23, 2019 Stephen Clark

Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched a package of NASA experiments to the edge of space Wednesday from West Texas with a suborbital New Shepard booster, then successfully recovered the reusable rocket and space capsule a few minutes later.

Blue Origin plans New Shepard launch Wednesday

January 19, 2019 Stephen Clark

Blue Origin plans to launch its single stage New Shepard suborbital booster Wednesday as the commercial space company moves closer to flying people to the edge of space.