TEXAS, — Blue Origin’s New Shepard’s 25th mission to space will lift off Sunday morning in Texas.
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The New Shepard rocket and capsule is scheduled to lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas at 8: 30 CDT.
The capsule can hold up to six people and is named the RSS First Step. The “RSS” stands for “reusable space ship.”
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The capsule, Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight.
The New Shepard capsule is a fully reusable rocket and it has flown to space 8 times.
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The space journey can last up to 11 minutes.
#NewShepard is vertical on the pad. We have an updated launch time of 8:52 a.m. CDT / 13:52 UTC. The #NS25 live webcast begins T-40 minutes on https://t.co/7Y4TherpLr pic.twitter.com/pepgdwt0BX
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) May 19, 2024
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