Blue Origin test flight simulates space emergency [CBS News]
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Simulating a catastrophic malfunction, a Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft — the vehicle Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is developing to carry tourists on sub-orbital rides into space — rocketed away from Texas early Wednesday and then fired its abort motor to quickly push the capsule away in a high-altitude test of its safety systems. The roomy capsule, packed with experiments and an instrumented test dummy known as Mannequin Skywalker, rapidly shot away to the side atop a brilliant jet of flame and 70,000 pounds of thrust, simulating a quick-response boost to safety in the event of a major malfunction. Two successful abort tests were carried out earlier, one from ground level in 2012 and a second at mid-level altitudes during a 2016 test flight. Wednesday's flight tested the system at high altitude near the end of the booster's climb out of the thick lower atmosphere. During the 2016 test, ignition of the escape motor did not noticeably affect the reusable booster, which cont
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