NOVEMBER 23RD 2015 THE AMAZON ROCKET AS BROUGHT BY JEFF BEZOS THE BLUE ORIGIN TAKES OFF AT MACH 3.72 AT AN ALTITUDE OF 329,839 FEET AND SOFTLY LANDS BACK 4.4MPH TO ITS SUCCESSFUL TOUCH DOWN KUDOS TO THE BO TEAM

Blue Origin, the private space firm owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, has just dropped a huge gauntlet in the race to develop a reusable rocket. It just launched its New Shepard space vehicle (video, below), consisting of a BE-3 rocket and crew capsule, to the edge of space at a suborbital altitude of 100.5 kilometers (62 miles). The capsule then separated and touched down beneath a parachute, but more importantly, the BE-3 rocket also started its own descent. After the rockets fired at nearly 5,000 feet, it made a a controlled vertical landing at a gentle 4.4 mph.

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