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American private aerospace company “Blue Origin” made the first successful landing in human history reusable rockets. The aircraft rose to a height of one hundred and a half kilometers and, after the capsule had separated from him, he came back. The rocket made an almost perfect vertical landing in planned place, standing up to the applause of specialists at all four pillars.
At present, Blue Origin employees reusable ship called “New Shepard “in honor of American astronaut Al Shepard, who directed the landing of Apollo 14 on the moon. The device will be designed for suborbital flights, that is, it will be able to climb to a height of one hundred kilometers, considered the boundary between the earth atmosphere and space. The ship consists of stocked with large portholes of the passenger capsule and rocket module. His future destination – delivery of space tourists to the Earth’s suborbite. Reusable missile module will significantly reduce money company costs. Rumor has it that Blue Origin is already taking from rich applications for flights in this unit.
It should be noted that Blue Origin is not the only company developing reusable launch vehicles. Another private US company, SpaceX, is trying to do the same now the most. The owner of “SpaceX” Elon Musk has already managed to congratulate colleagues from “Blue Origin” with their undoubted success. Unfortunately his rocket “Falcon 9” has not yet been able to sit vertically on a floating platform as planned.
However, Musk did not fail to prick his competitors, Recalling that, despite its recent success, Blue Origin technically did not launch “New Shepard” into space while Falcon 9 transports a cargo ship to International Space Station, which is undoubtedly much more important for of humanity. At the same time, the successful landing of the Falcon reusable rocket 9 “, according to the entrepreneur, is only a matter of time.
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