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Blue Origin, the space company of Jeff Bezos, is set for the 11th launch of its New Shepard rocket on Thursday.
The rocket will lift off from the company's facility in West Texas, with 38 research and development experiments on board for NASA and other academic institutions.
The rocket booster for Blue Origin's New Shepard lands on the company's pad near Van Horn, Texas after a successful mission.
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The New Shepard rocket will send the company's capsule past an altitude of 350,000 feet – more than 100 kilometers up.
Blue Origin, which Bezos founded nearly two decades ago, is developing the New Shepard rocket system for the company's space tourism business. Six passengers would ride past the edge of space, where they would spend about 10 minutes floating in zero gravity before returning back to Earth. The capsule features massive windows, providing expansive views of the Earth once in space.
Named after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, the New Shepard system is reused by Blue Origin. Reusability is a key part of Blue Origin's plan to turn space tourism into a business. Similar to SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system, New Shepard's booster – the bottom and largest section of the rocket – launches straight up and then returns straight down to land.
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