Blue Origin launched a successful test of space travel ship

New Shepard missile takes the ship up to a height of 107km before successfully landing in the 8th test launch.

The American billionaire Jeff Bezos' private company Blue Origin launched a successful test of space travel by New Shepard boosters at a launch site near the city of Van Horn, west of Texas, USA on 29 4, according to CBS News.

Blue Origin launched a space travel ship.

The launch is the eighth test of the rocket family's reuse of New Origin's New Shepard (named after Alan Shepard, the first American to fly into space). The missile left the launch pad at 1306 local time, carrying a space tourist ship containing NASA research facilities and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), along with a mannequin named Mannequin Skywalker. .

separated from the vessel at an altitude of about 76km and successfully landed after 450 seconds since leaving the launch pad. Container ships continue their journey after separating from the missile and reach a height of 107km, 7km higher than originally envisaged. The ship then landed safely by parachute, after the rocket for about 150 seconds.

Blue Origin's can carry 6 passengers, designed with 6 large glass windows (1.2 meters high and 0.8 meters wide), giving visitors a wide view from inside the ship. Blue Origin hopes to provide space tourism services in early 2019.