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What is New Shephard, the rocket system?

  • Posted By
    10Pointer
  • Categories
    Science & Technology
  • Published
    17th Oct, 2020
  • It is a rocket system meant to take tourists to space successfully.
  • It has completed its seventh test launch recently.
  • The system is built by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company called Blue Origin.
  • New Shephard has been named after astronaut Alan Shephard, the first American to go to space.
  • It offers flights to space over 100 km above the Earth and accommodation for payloads.
  • Essentially, it is a rocket system that has been designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Karman line –the internationally recognised boundary of space.

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