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New Shepard
The
New Shepard
reusable launch system
is a
vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing
(VTVL),
suborbital
manned
rocket
that is being developed by
Blue Origin
, a company owned by
Amazon.com
founder and businessman
Jeff Bezos
, as a commercial system for suborbital
space tourism
. The New Shepard makes reference to the first
United States
astronaut
in space,
Alan Shepard
. On 23 November 2015, after reaching altitude (
outer space
), the
booster
successfully performed a powered vertical
soft landing
.
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