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Offline Nemesis

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Blue Origin
« on: January 10, 2007, 06:13:25 pm »
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Our first objective is developing New Shepard, a vertical take-off, vertical-landing vehicle designed to take a small number of astronauts on a sub-orbital journey into space.

On the morning of November 13, 2006, we launched and landed Goddard – a first development vehicle in the New Shepard program. The launch was both useful and fun. Many friends and family came to watch the launch and support the team.


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Re: Blue Origin
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2007, 10:59:19 am »
From what I read elsewhere the Goddard is just a prototype of the crew portion of Shepherd, it'll hitch a ride into orbit atop a "regular" rocket, seperate on its own power and then land on its own.
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