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| The rocket on which the capsule of the New Shepard |
The private space company Blue Origin, the founder and which head is Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) who is at the same time and the founder of the known Internet company Amazon , carried out the first in the history successful start of the rocket on which the capsule of the New Shepard spaceship was established. Naturally, during this test start onboard the spaceship there was no person, nevertheless, successful start does Jeff Bezos's plans concerning development of space tourism one step closer. The Blue Origin company works at a field of space flights and space tourism since 2000. Unlike other similar companies, development by the Blue Origin company of own system of the carrier rocket and the New Shepard spaceship kept under cover of secret. For all the time of work specialists of the company carried out the mass of land tests, flights on small range and the first test start which was made in August, 2011 but which ended with failure. The rocket, having dispersed to speed 1.2 Moves, reached height about 14 kilometers then contact between the rocket and control center was lost.
