Success for New Shepard launch abort test
The competition heats up: Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule not only successfully rocketed away from its propulsion module and landed safely, the propulsion module unexpectedly survived today’ launch abort test and landed vertically as well.
This was the fifth flight of the propulsion module, which with the capsule will now be retired and placed on display.
Below the fold is the video of the entire test flight, including countdown and several long holds. The actual launch is at 1:06:19.
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The competition heats up: Blue Origin’s New Shepard capsule not only successfully rocketed away from its propulsion module and landed safely, the propulsion module unexpectedly survived today’ launch abort test and landed vertically as well.
This was the fifth flight of the propulsion module, which with the capsule will now be retired and placed on display.
Below the fold is the video of the entire test flight, including countdown and several long holds. The actual launch is at 1:06:19.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Sweet success! Great video!
The commentators claimed a retro fire would reduce capsule speed to 3 mph at touchdown,
then blithely ignored the 15 mph hit.
Everything is perfect to a paid mouthpiece…it just irritates me.
m d mill: I would have to agree with you. The spokeswoman said that retro rockets would fire just before impact, and as far as I could tell, they did not. This failure is not critical, because I think that no one in the capsule would have been hurt by a 15 mph landing, but it does mean they have some issues they still need to resolve.
I think it is the rockets firing that blows up the dust. As far as I have read about it, they did fire and could’ve reduced the speed to 3 mph.
After careful review , I was wrong!
There does appear to be a slowdown(of the visible tip of the capsule) at the very last second, creating more dust than a simple impact would have created.
mea culpa…