Blue Origin's New Shepard Mission 9 Launch Test Live Now

"“We’ll be doing a high altitude escape motor test – pushing the rocket to its limits,” noted Blue Origin ahead of the test. How this will differentiate from the previous safety test is yet to be seen, such as the potential to fire the escape system later into the flight.

Numerous payloads will be flying in the spacecraft during the test, ranging from international customers, such as Thailand’s “mu Space-1” – which includes an assortment of scientific and medical items, several textile materials they plan to use on their future space suit and apparel, and other special articles for their community partners – through to a suite of payloads from Blue Origin employees as a part of their internal “Fly My Stuff” program.

Several NASA payloads are riding along, such as SFEM-2 – which was first flown on Mission 8 of New Shepard, and will collect additional data on Mission 9. The experiment will record vehicle conditions including cabin pressure, temperature, CO2, acoustic conditions, and acceleration.

While testing with New Shepard continues, work on Blue Origin’s next vehicle, the New Glenn is pressing on, albeit mainly away from the attention of the media."
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Cool! Thank you!

what time is liftoff ?

2 minutes from now, provided there are no other holds (already 10 minutes behind the original schedule).

Last Edited by Astromut on 07/18/2018 11:11 AM

Liftoff and abort test looks good, they're testing the stabilization system of reaction control thrusters to set up for a safe re-entry.

Pretty cool although it resembles a flying dildo

They say all is normal with the capsule, though they're not showing it yet.

OMG Dude, how absolutely AWESOME that was! Thank you so much for sharing.

OMG! How beautiful! I am always amazed at how brilliant these people are to make that happen!

There's the crew capsule, looking good. And yeah, it is the most phallic rocket ever lol.

That was friggin awesome !

oops...spoke too soon, I had no idea a capsule was to follow. Man, that was truly incredible!

LOL...I was thinking it but wasn't about to say it. HEY, on the bright side they might get lots of ladies watching the launches!

Wow. That was cool.

I want one of those.

Thanks Dr. Astromut that was beautiful.

Very soon, paying space tourists are going to start taking rides in those capsules. Hate to say it, but I'd much rather ride in that thing with an intact abort available throughout flight than Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo.

Man, I had never even heard of this project and just happened across your post minutes before liftoff. These folks look like they really have their stuff together. I'm in Dallas, any idea if they allow public viewing at their launches? I've just bookmarked their website and look forward to following this.

Thanks again for posting.

i was just at Kennedy Space Center less than 2 weeks ago.

Just so you guys know, the USA is back n tp of space flight with successful missions from blue origin, Space x and in less than 2 years NASA will be back in manned space flight with the SLS space launch system which is a new rocket that is 3 times more powerful than any pevious spacecraft ever lanched.

Murica, fuck yea.

I don't think they allow the general public onto their property, but I've heard that if you drive 5 miles past the north gate to their launch facility in Van Horn Texas you can view the launch perpendicular to the pad about 5 miles away from the launch.
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the live broadcast is over and now clicking the video will let you watch from the beginning.

Close enough, after all it's not every day you see a flying Dildo!

That was good. I wanna ride in it!

Thanks Doc. You always come through.

Dragon...

New Shepherd...

Awesome, indeed!

And they'll look out the "windows" without realizing that they're looking at giant flatscreen tv panels, showing them CG shit. All so fake!

At 38:28 she says crew crapsule. Very cool indeed.

looks more real


but the owner of this needs to slip out of reality

watching this while looking at your avatar gif

hahahaha

Does anyone know the cost for a ride yet?