New Shepard | NS-31
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Launch Window
April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m. - April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m. - April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m.
NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.
Launch successful.
Liftoff!
Official Webcast by Blue Origin has started
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Adding launch, currently targeted for spring
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
See DetailsThe New Shepard booster NS-5 has landed back on the landing pad.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.Second human rated Crew Capsule for New Shepard.
Crew Capsule 2.0 Details
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Birth: Nov. 4, 1986
Age: 38
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Birth: Oct. 10, 1991
Age: 33
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Birth: Dec. 28, 1954
Age: 70
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Birth: Oct. 25, 1984
Age: 40
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Birth: Sept. 19, 1969
Age: 55
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.
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