MISSION NAME
NS-17 17
Status
Success
DATE
26 AUG 2021
LAUNCH PROVIDER
Blue Origin
Launch Pad
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Description
Seventeenth flight of New Shepard. It will carry a second NASA lunar landing technology demonstration on the exterior of the booster, 18 commercial payloads inside the crew capsule, and an art installation on the exterior of the capsule.
New Shepard
Rocket Description
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.