New Shepard | NS-5
Fifth flight for Blue Origin. The NS-5 mission successfully landed the core stage and tested a capsule landing with one parachute cut.
First Blue Origin New Shepard Crew Capsule.
The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.
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Mission Profile
NS-5 was a New Shepard mission operated by Blue Origin that lifted off from West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch, Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA on June 19, 2016. The flight carried its payload on a test flight mission to Suborbital. The first stage, booster NS-2, made its 4th flight, returning to service just 77 days after its previous mission. The launch was a success.