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Blue Origin Successful Flight Super Chill

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Blue Origin successfully completes first test flight with no passengers after Jeff Bezos trip

It marked the 17th test flight for New Shepard, the suborbital rocket developed by Bezos’ Blue Origin. The 60-foot-tall vehicle took off from a small launch pad at Blue Origin-owned facilities in West Texas Thursday morning, carrying only a few science experiments and pieces of art rather than passengers, and soared more than 60 miles over the landscape before coming to a pinpoint, upright landing at a nearby concrete pad.

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Blue Origin successfully completes first test flight with no passengers after Jeff Bezos trip

It marked the 17th test flight for New Shepard, the suborbital rocket developed by Bezos’ Blue Origin. The 60-foot-tall vehicle took off from a small launch pad at Blue Origin-owned facilities in West Texas Thursday morning, carrying only a few science experiments and pieces of art rather than passengers, and soared more than 60 miles over the landscape before coming to a pinpoint, upright landing at a nearby concrete pad.

Do you want to be my guest co-host? Feel free to send me a DM on Twitter @GalStatic

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