Thursday 3 May 2018

New Shepard Space Capsule was launched by which company?

 New Shepard Space Capsule was launched by which company?

Options

1) Blue Origin

2)SpaceX

3)Virgin Galactic

4)none of the above


answer

1) Blue Origin


Other details

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its passenger spaceship New Shepard on a test flight

The New Shepard 2.0 rocket and capsule, both of which have flown in space before, lifted off from Blue Origin's West Texas launch site

Blue Origin launched New Shepard to a target altitude of 351,000 feet (106,984 meters)

Sunday's launch marked the second flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard 2.0 vehicle (after a successful December 2017 test launch) and eighth test flight overall for the company's New Shepard program.

An earlier version of New Shepard launched a series of missions in 2015 and 2016 before it was retired

Blue Origin's New Shepard 2.0 space capsule is designed to fly six passengers on suborbital space tourism flights

Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington. 
Founder: Jeff Bezos
Founded: 8 September 2000
Headquarters: Kent, Washington, United States
Owner: Jeff Bezos
Number of employees: 1,000

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