Blue Origins New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 100.5 kilometers before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas.
The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has conducted a second flight of his New Shepard spaceship. Intended eventually to carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday with no-one aboard. Read more
Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC. The experiment will be used to study how fluids behave in low gravity, providing information that could help engineers design better components for a variety of technologies used both on the Earth and in space, said Steven Collicott, a professor in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Read more