On Sunday, Blue Origin will end a nearly two-year hiatus of its crewed rocket launches from West Texas.
Blue Origin is preparing to launch six people into space on Sunday, ending a nearly two-year hiatus of its private passenger launches from West Texas . The rocket company grounded its 10-minute suborbital flights in September 2022 after an engine nozzle overheated and caused the New Shepard rocket booster to crash. No one was onboard and an escape system designed to protect the crew worked as planned. But the incident required Blue Origin to redesign its engine and nozzle components.
Blue Origin resumes flight from West Texas more than a year after an accident grounded its rocket Since then, the company successfully launched an uncrewed mission in December 2023. Sunday’s flight aims to liftoff at 8:30 a.m. from the company’s launch pad north of Van Horn. The paying passengers will travel to the threshold of space and back, receiving a few minutes of weightlessness. The company doesn’t publicize how much the seats cost. The six passengers include former Air Force Capt.
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