Blue Origin’s New Shepard reusable, suborbital rocket has undergone multiple test flights. Jeff Bezos, the company’s founder and CEO, said he hopes the company’s first space tourists will fly on New Shepard in 2018. Credit: Blue Origin COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ private spaceflight company, Blue Origin, may have multiple uses for its New Shepard rocket, which has been primarily marketed as a space tourism vehicle. New Shepard is a suborbital rocket that will be used to send paying customers on 11-minute trips to space. The capsule can also be used for science experiments studying the space environment or the effects of weightlessness. One of the revolutionary aspects of New Shepard is its reusable rocket booster, which…
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