Blue Origin New Shepard mission 9
Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle lifts off on its ninth test flight July 17 from the company's West Texas test site.

Blue Origin conducted a successful test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle July 18 that demonstrated its crew capsule escape system.

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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...