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Old 04-28-2018, 03:25 PM
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Hello All,

The 8th test flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle, scheduled for tomorrow (Sunday, April 29th) will be webcast live *here*: http://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/2...-flight-sunday/. The launch window extends from 9:30 AM EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 AM CDT) to--apparently--4:00 PM EDT (the FAA's temporary flight restriction for the launch area lasts until 4:00 PM EDT). I also received the following brief e-mailed notice about the launch (via Blue Origin's free subscription service):
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Launch preparations are underway for New Shepard’s 8th test flight, as we continue our progress toward human spaceflight. We are currently targeting launch on Sunday, April 29th – with the launch window opening up at 8:30 a.m. CDT.

Livestream will be available on BlueOrigin.com ( www.blueorigin.com ), more info to come.

-Gradatim Ferociter!
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Old 04-29-2018, 06:44 PM
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It was a textbook flight (see: http://spaceflightnow.com/2018/04/2...or-eighth-time/ and www.blueorigin.com )! New camera views (from a drone), and a few sky background clouds showed the dramatic velocity changes of the complete vehicle and, during descent and touchdown, of the separated booster and capsule. The rapidly descending booster's double sonic boom, which came just before the landing burn re-start, was also particularly loud and crisp today, and:

This New Shepard mission, the eighth overall, was the second one to carry paying customers' suborbital payloads. With Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo regaining its stride after the fatal accident a few years ago (it made a high-altitude powered flight this month), both vehicles may be carrying paying passengers into space late this year or early next year (New Shepard is scheduled to fly with test pilot crews soon). I'm glad that we have Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson, Paul Allen of Stratolaunch Systems (their launching aircraft will fly soon), Elon Musk, Peter Beck of Rocket Lab (whose Electron launch vehicle is now flying) and Bob Bigelow of Bigelow Aerospace (the expandable space station/celestial body surface habitat module producer, three of whose modules are in Earth orbit) involved in this field--we need more space entrepreneurs.
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