New Shepard landing
The New Shepard propulsion module lands at Blue Origin's West Texas test site after a Dec. 12 test flight.

Blue Origin said it carried out a successful test flight of a new version of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle Dec. 12.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...