Historic Rocket Landing
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle successfully flew to space, reaching its planned test altitude of 329,839 feet (100.5 kilometers) before executing a historic landing back at the launch site in West Texas.
Secretive Blue Origin Tests Launch Pad Escape
The secretive Blue Origin spaceflight company owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos successfully tested its emergency rocket escape system, a capsule-based pad abort concept, for a new private spaceship in October 2012.