LAUNCH CENTER
Success
Wed Apr 14 2021
Blue Origin
NS-15
Launch Successful
LAUNCH PREVIEW
Launch Time
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(4:49 PM UTC)
Launch Window Start
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(1:00 PM UTC)
Launch Window End
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(8:00 PM UTC)
RECOVERY OVERVIEW
Location
No Recovery Specified
Type
No Recovery Specified
Rocket Details
Name:
New ShepardDescription:
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
MISSION OVERVIEW
- Type: Suborbital
- Fifteenth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. During the mission, astronaut operational exercises will be conducted in preparation for human space flight. The primary operations will entail Blue Origin personnel standing in as astronauts entering into the capsule prior to launch. These astronauts will climb the launch tower, get into their seats, buckle their harnesses, and conduct a communications check from their seat with CAPCOM, the Capsule Communicator. The tower operations team will prepare the capsule cabin for launch and then briefly close the capsule hatch. The astronauts will then exit the capsule prior to launch. Post-landing, the astronauts will get inside the capsule to rehearse hatch opening, and exiting the capsule at the landing site. Inside the capsule during the flight will be Mannequin Skywalker, along with more than 25,000 postcards on behalf of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s nonprofit organization
COMPLEX OVERVIEW
Location
Corn Ranch, USA
Pad
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch