Blue Origin test flight simulates emergency aboard space mission 19:52. A Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft — the vehicle Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is developing to carry tourists on sub ...

WASHINGTON — Blue Origin plans to conduct the next test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle no earlier than Dec. 21 as the company moves closer to flying people into space.

Blue Origin said the test mission, known as NS-15, was a success — but today, the focus was on the human factors that came into play before and after the 10-minute, 10-second flight.

The test flight lasted about 10 minutes, sending the capsule to an altitude of 331,501 feet (62.8 miles, ... Blue Origin will start flying test astronauts late next year.

Blue Origin on Tuesday made its first successful test rocket launch since a crash suspended flights in 2022. The Jeff Bezos-owned company launched an uncrewed capsule full of tests from west Texas ...

It marked the 17th test flight for New Shepard, the suborbital rocket developed by Bezos’ Blue Origin. ... Blue Origin’s suborbital tourism flights travel more than 60 miles high, ...

Blue Origin, the stealthy company founded by Amazon’s billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, just launched another test flight of its tourism rocket as it steadily inches toward sending paying ...

The in-flight escape motor on Blue Origin's New Shepard space capsule will get an in-flight test on Oct. 5, 2016. (Image credit: Blue Origin Twitter (@blueorigin)) ...

Including the pad escape test in 2012, New Shepard has carried out 16 successful capsule flights and landings as Blue Origin ramps up for the day when the crew capsule will carry paying passengers ...

Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle cleanly launched and landed on its 15th test flight, which also included practicing procedures that astronauts will follow when preparing to launch and after landing.

The number of Blue Origin rocket flights went into double digits today as the company's New Shepard booster completed its 10th suborbital mission (NS-10). At 9:05 am CST, the rocket lifted off and ...

Blue Origin has been developing the New Shepard booster and capsule system for suborbital space tourism since mid-2000's. The vehicle's 14th test flight that happened in January was the first time ...