Irene Klotz
23 August 2024

Blue Origin sets August 29 for next New Shepard launch

Blue Origin’s New Shepard will lift off from its base in West Texas in July 2021.

Photo credit: ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

After resolving a problem that affected the function of one of the three parachutes on the final flight of its New Shepard (NS) suborbital spacecraft, Blue Origin is planning its next passenger mission for August 29, the company announced on August 23. The launch window for NS-26 – the company’s eighth with …

Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is senior space editor at Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a news reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial spaceflight, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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