NS-7
New Shepard
Blue Origin
Crew
Mannequin Skywalker
- Role: Anthropomorphic Test Device
- Nationality: Earthling
- First Flight: 12/12/2017
- Last Flight: 04/14/2021
“Mannequin Skywalker” is a test dummy flown on Blue Origin New Shepard 3’s initial flight test.
Mission
NS-7
- Type: Earth Science
- Orbit: Suborbital
NS-7 is Blue Origins first commercial flight. The payloads included 12 experiments conducted in 3 minutes of microgravity dedicated to medical and earth science.
Location
Rocket
Landing
Core NS-3
Booster NS-3 last launched 09/12/2022 and has seen 8 successful launches and landings. New Shepard vehicle #3 was the third flight vehicle of the New Shepard suborbital rocket. It suffered an anomaly during its ninth flight.
Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas – CR
New Shepard landing site.
Return to Launch Site – RTLS
A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.
Agency
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.