New video is out from the Blue Origin team and it just blows me away:
New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp to high thrust fast.
Watch:
Watching this thing land is just amazing to me. And to think it’s doing it for the third time on the same hardware is just the coolest thing ever.
Space travel, here we come.
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