The failure marked a setback for Jeff Bezos' rocket company, but provided a real-world demonstration of its safety systems.
Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, built the New Shepard system to carry passengers and cargo to the edge of space about 65 miles up, allowing about three minutes of weightlessness before the capsule arcs over the top of the trajectory to descend for a parachute-assisted touchdown near the launch pad.
In the meantime, the New Shepard spacecraft will be grounded pending a formal accident investigation that will be overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration. Monday's flight began at 10:27 a.m. EDT when the hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine powering the single-stage New Shepard booster roared to life, throttled up to full thrust and propelled the spacecraft skyward from Blue Origin's west Texas launch site.
The capsule continued upward to an altitude of more than 37,000 feet before motor burnout and a safe descent to Earth.The capsule streaked away as expected — the abort system was tested during a 2018 test flight — but the spacecraft did not appear as steady atop the motor, wobbling back and forth before the engine exhausted its load of solid propellant and burned out.
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