![]() ![]() ![]() Cornell declined to provide details on where the investigation stands. The company expected to complete a "technical review" of the New Shepard failure by December last year, a Blue Origin executive told the Washington Post in November, but it is unclear if that review has been completed. New Shepard has flown several crews of paying tourists and company-sponsored guests to the edge of space, including Blue Origin's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos on the rocket's inaugural flight in 2021. For those missions, New Shepard launches a capsule to the edge of space to float in microgravity for roughly five minutes before making a parachute-assisted return landing. The mishap paused Blue Origin's only active rocket at the center of its space tourism and microgravity research business. The company has provided few details on an investigation into why its 59-foot-tall (18-meter-tall) New Shepard rocket aborted a research capsule roughly one minute after lifting off in Texas in September. "We are looking to get back into flight with New Shepard by the end of this year," Ariane Cornell, vice president of commercial and international sales, said at a conference in Washington. ![]()
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