Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission this morning (Feb. 25), sending six paying passengers to suborbital space.
After a slight delay due to a hold, Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard vehicle lifted off from the company’s West Texas site today at 10:50 a.m. EST (1550 GMT; 9:50 a.m. local Texas time). Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster touched down in the dusty Texas desert around seven minutes after liftoff, and the flight’s capsule returned to the ground three minutes after that. All three parachutes on the capsule deployed during the crew’s descent; on the company’s previous uncrewed research flight earlier this month, one of the capsule’s parachutes failed to deploy.
The six crewmembers on today’s flight named themselves
Blue Origin launches ‘Perfect 10’ space tourists on New Shepard rocket (video)
