New Shepard flew again for the eighth time on April 29, 2018, from Blue Origin’s West Texas Launch Site. Known as Mission 8 (M8), the mission featured a reflight of the vehicle flown on Mission 7. The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 351,000 feet (66 miles, 107 kilometers) – the altitude we’ve been targeting for operations.
For the second time, Blue Origin’s test dummy “Mannequin Skywalker” flew to space conducting astronaut telemetry and science studies. The flight also carried research payloads for NASA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and commercial customers. Learn more about the payloads: https://www.blueorigin.com/news/news/payload-customers-on-new-shepards-8th-test-flight
We look forward to sharing upcoming test flights as we continue our progress toward human spaceflight.
Congrats to the team! Keep up the great work.
While not at the same scale as other rockets in production I actually like the design BlueOrigin has went with. It looks efficient and compact. Either way, congrats on a successful test mission and wish you the best of luck in future operations!
Tschadschi All too true.
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*has gone with
Tschadschi they are borrowing an efficient design from mother nature
It’s Doctor Evil’s Rocket ship that is shaped like
Countdown at 38:41
Whole thing begins @ 31:15
life saver
Aryareza tnx
You will need a new neck after the landing bump
Bizarre to see feet/miles used in a rocket launch… (why intentionally not use metric units?).
Great launch, regardless. Awesome re-ignition audio. Congrats!
It’s standard in aerospace
Because this is Murica! Home of ratarded measuring systems.
>Americans don’t know metric, and this is a public viewing.
There’s a lot of truth to that, even though we teach metric, most people’s daily experiences are in imperial units & they don’t really _grok_ metric.
We know metric. We just don’t think in it.
Fuck you and your “murica”.
I love SpaceX, but I love to see another company catching up to them, competition is NOT bad. it will make both companies strive to do better than the other and will be better for the consumer.
I would love to see another company catching up too. Until then, we have RocketLab 😛
They’re operating in two different markets… One is tourism while the other is commercial satellite deliveries…
They’re striving for completely different goals.
I echo your thoughts but they aren’t exactly catching up. even in 2.8 years from now optimistically they will still at best have a vehicle similarly matched to the falcon heavy and it will be unproven. By that time BFR might have already launched which will make new glenn look like new sheppard
remains to be seen….
Why would you use an imperial metric system? Every other space agency ever in world use normal metric system (even americans). Anyway, nice launch. 🙂
They use the US customary system for this live stream because Blue Origin is in a country whose public primarily uses the US customary system. The easy conversions of the metric system provide no advantages for this broadcast since no one should be doing any calculations with these numbers. No one cares if the metric system is better, for this broadcast, using the US customary system allows the video’s primary demographic to better understand the speeds and distances involved.
Luke Rustin if BlueOrigin want be success and famous only in the USA region then so be it, let SpaceX be the world leader and no.1 in space launch because they know how to do it properly and in the right way (using the metric system)
1″=25.4mm by definition, ergo, imperial is metric.
metric is for all countries except the usa and a third world country. 3rd world by the way simply mean unaligned in ww2
what’s up with the potato cam on the rocket?
They blew the budget on the rocket.
Bad bandwidth. Check their latest video for raw HD footage.
They used an amazon $20 dash cam
Shawn Baldwin
Best comment.
Blue Origin not using metric system… what a joke.
dancingwithczars Right? If they want us to switch so badly, give us the fucking money to do it. They don’t even know about the last attempt to do it, that shit ended badly lol.
RBooster Man
They already did, it’s the falcon 9.
I know, right? They should have used knots instead of MPH.
Give me freedom (units) or give me death!
Thumbs down for imperial metrics
imedov6 It’s for the majority American viewers. But sure, let’s complain about a measurement systems instead of congratulating the, y’know, reuse and landing of a rock and capsule. Jesus, you people always find a way to complain.
Congratulations guys, this is awesome ! Hell yeah!
is it possible to get value in metric system too ?
Did she already mention you are watching live from west Texas the 8th mission in the New Shepard test program?
Congratulations!!! This is great! Love to see competition stepping up!!! But altitude in feet and speed in MPH?!?! really?!?!
It’s the same distance no matter how you measure it. 😀
haha, that’s true. As an European who lives in the US, I’ve gotten used to use feet and miles in casual conversation, and I’m ok with that. But for anything serious or scientific, I think the metric system is more appropriate 🙂
Another European brainlet. It literally does not matter.
thanks for the free insult. But it does actually matter. Easy conversions aside. I just want to recall that the 1999 NASA Mars Orbiter accident was due to one of the components assuming English units, while all other components used the metric system (as is supposed to be NASA’s standard).
Classic European foolery. Blames not reading a manual on a the imperial system. Then conflates that with displaying mph on a video stream. Crawl back under your rock!
The most beautiful thing about this rocket the way the legs get out of it
Wonderful launch and landing! Gradatim Ferociter!
Use the metric system!
dancingwithczars the vid shows imperial cuz mostly americans are watching but the physics behind is done using metric like every other company.
dancingwithczars oh fuck off it’s the scientific model
The US has the privilege of using IMPERIAL units because it is the last true empire. We cucked everyone else, so only we are allowed to use them!
Enlightened Doggo The US never has been an empire you dumbfuck!
Would you please STFU about the metric system?
International System would have been much appreciated…
Seems so country in feet. You bet the nuts and bolts are all imperial units too.
Best Launch audio I’ve every heard!
Tony MacDonald Yes… Was brilliant. You might want to check out Falcon Heavy Launch by Sound Traveler and use earplugs
You’ll love the sound
A hopping frog (New Sheppard) cannot compare to a soaring falcon (F9 and FH).
They laughed at the Wright Brothers, too, I guess.
Its new design allows it to effortless fly into Uranus