A suborbital
VTOL
vehicle being developed by Blue Origin
, along similar lines to the former
ROTON and
Phoenix projects and also to
Kankoh-Maru, although unlike these vehicles it is not designed to take passengers into orbit. Blue Origin, founded by Amazon tycoon
Jeff Bezos, is famously secretive about its plans and progress, so while it is reasonable to suppose that New Shepard would be the basis for a further orbital design analogous to Kanoh-Maru, the company have not announced one.
The New Shepard is named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Blue Origin test launched a demonstrator vehicle in 2006 called
Goddard (shown), similarly named for rocket pioneer Robert
Goddard.
vehicle being developed by Blue Origin, along similar lines to the former
ROTON and
Phoenix projects and also to
Kankoh-Maru, although unlike these vehicles it is not designed to take passengers into orbit. Blue Origin, founded by Amazon tycoon
Jeff Bezos, is famously secretive about its plans and progress, so while it is reasonable to suppose that New Shepard would be the basis for a further orbital design analogous to Kanoh-Maru, the company have not announced one.
The New Shepard
is named for Alan Shepard, the first American in space. Blue Origin test launched a demonstrator vehicle in 2006 called
Goddard (shown), similarly named for rocket pioneer Robert
Goddard.
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