January 23, 2016, 09:19 | space | returned rocket | Blue Origin | New Shepard
A private company Blue Origin, founded by American billionaire Jeff Bezos, the newly produced rocket launch and landing New Shepard.
Rocket made a vertical landing, and the space capsule landed separately via parachute.
Takes off at 101.7 km – suborbital altitude – and sat down to the same instance of the spacecraft, as in November, says the Blue Origin.
Previously, the company Amazon founder Jeff Bezos first time in history was able to successfully carry out the first stage of the rocket landing New Shepard.
According to the company, it opens a new page in the history of space rockets reusable. Blue Origin is very close to the space launch, which do not require the construction of disposable rockets costing many millions of dollars for each flight.
In December, the private space company SpaceX Elon Musk has also implemented the successful landing of the Falcon 9 rocket on land. Earlier this year, the previous generation of rocket successfully put a satellite into orbit, but fell because of the support gave way after touchdown.
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