Jeff Bezos: the rocket New Shepard successfully completed the first flight with a passenger capsule

Space company Blue Origin, founded by the richest man today Jeff Bezos, tested a reusable New Shepard rocket with the passenger transport capsule Crew Capsule 2.0. The businessman said this in his...

Space company Blue Origin, founded by the richest man today Jeff Bezos, tested a reusable New Shepard rocket with the passenger transport capsule Crew Capsule 2.0. The businessman said this in his Twitter.

#NewShepard had a successful first flight of Crew Capsule 2.0 today. Complete with windows and our instrumented test dummy. He had a great ride. @BlueOrigin pic.twitter.com/PZHXWXjuw9

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 13, 2017

Boost the capsule to about 100 km height, New Shepard returned safely to Earth, and Crew Capsule descended separately, with the help of parachute.

Blue Origin launched the New Shepard for the seventh time. For Crew Capsule this was the first flight and it turned out to be successful. The capsule is designed to deliver cosmonauts to orbit, as well as for tourist flights.

The first flight of the capsule passed without a crew, but there was a dummy onboard with which Blue Origin specialists will accurately determine the effects on a person during the flight. The company plans to begin flights with live passengers onboard in 2019.

Another private space company SpaceX has the second time launched into the orbit a cargo vehicle Dragon. The ship raised more than two tons of equipment and food to the ISS and delivered the results of experiments (more than 1800 kg) to the ground.