Sunday, 3 April 2016

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket makes third powered landing



Blue Origin pulled off a spaceflight hat trick today as its New Shepard rocket completed its third powered landing. In a series of tweets, company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed the third flight of the reusable booster from its test site in Texas. The rocket flew to an altitude of 339,178 ft before releasing its unmanned Crew Capsule, which returned to Earth using parachutes.

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