New Shepard, reusable launch vehicle, Blue Origin, LLC, Kent, Washington, USA

**Airicist** · 16th April 2021, 18:22

Article "Blue Origin launches and lands New Shepard rocket in key prep flight for human passengers"

by Darrell Etherington
April 14, 2021

**Airicist** · 11th June 2021, 10:37

Article "Bids to fly to space with Jeff Bezos just hit $4 million with only 2 days left until the live auction for a seat on Blue Origin's space flight"

by Kate Duffy
June 10, 2021

**Airicist** · 20th July 2021, 22:48

Replay - New Shepard first human flight

Jul 20, 2021

On July 20, Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard’s first human flight with four private citizens onboard.

**Airicist** · 20th July 2021, 22:50

Replay - First human flight post-flight press conference

Jul 20, 2021

Replay of Blue Origin's post-flight press conference with New Shepard’s first astronaut crew.

Participants will included Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen. Ariane Cornell, Director of Astronaut Sales, emceed the press conference.

**Airicist** · 20th July 2021, 22:51

Watch Jeff Bezos launch to space in 10 minutes (supercut)

Jul 20, 2021

Watch Blue Origin's historic first space flight from pre-launch to touch down.

**Airicist** · 27th August 2021, 01:59

Replay - New Shepard mission NS-17 webcast

Streamed live Aug 26, 2021

On August 26, 2021, Blue Origin successfully completed its 17th New Shepard mission to space and back for the program, and the 8th consecutive flight for this particular vehicle. The flight featured commercial and NASA-supported payloads on board, including a reflight of the Deorbit, Descent, and Landing (DDL) Sensor Demonstration under a NASA Tipping Point partnership. The DDL demonstration, which flew for the second time mounted on the exterior of New Shepard’s booster, tested technology designed to achieve high-accuracy landing for future Moon missions. This aims to enable long-term lunar exploration.

**Airicist** · 27th August 2021, 02:00

Blue Origin NS-17: New Shepard launch and landing, 26 August 2021

Aug 26, 2021

The New Shepard reusable launch system was launched from and landed at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas, on 26 August 2021, at 14:31 UTC (09:31 CDT). During the mission, NASA’s lunar landing technology demonstration was tested for the second time on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads were inside the crew capsule (11 NASA-supported) and an art installation was present on the exterior of the capsule. NS-17 is the eight mission, launch and landing, for this New Shepard launch vehicle.

**Airicist** · 27th August 2021, 02:03

Article "Blue Origin flies payloads on latest New Shepard flight"

by Jeff Foust
August 26, 2021

**Airicist** · 14th October 2021, 01:21

Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-18 Webcast

October 13, 2021

Blue Origin successfully completed the second human spaceflight on board New Shepard on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The flight included four private citizens, Dr. Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers, and William Shatner.

Now official astronauts, the crew was welcomed back from space with a celebration in the West Texas desert with family, friends, and the Blue Origin team.

"William Shatner rockets to space and back with Blue Origin"
"I hope I never recover from this," he says afterward.

by Eric Mack
October 13, 2021

**Airicist** · 14th October 2021, 01:25

Blue Origin NS-18: New Shepard’s second human flight

Oct 13, 2021

The New Shepard reusable launch system was launched from and landed at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in West Texas, on 13 October 2021, at 14:50 UTC (09:50 CDT). For the second time, the New Shepard capsule carried passengers to space: William Shatner, Glen de Vries, Audrey Powers and Dr. Chris Boshuizen. NS-18 is the fourth mission, launch and landing, for this New Shepard launch vehicle (NS4).