What is New Shephard, the rocket system?
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10Pointer
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Science & Technology
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17th Oct, 2020
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- It is a rocket system meant to take tourists to space successfully.
- It has completed its seventh test launch recently.
- The system is built by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s space company called Blue Origin.
- New Shephard has been named after astronaut Alan Shephard, the first American to go to space.
- It offers flights to space over 100 km above the Earth and accommodation for payloads.
- Essentially, it is a rocket system that has been designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Karman line –the internationally recognised boundary of space.
