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    Default New Space Tourism Entrant by Amazon's Bezos

    Here we have another space tourism company, in addition to spaceX and bigelow aerospace. They loaded the capsule with a dummy called Mannequin Skywalker, conveniently tying in with the new star wars film. . This portends more small fry operators in near Earth space, meaning that SSP Operations will be well cloaked.

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    For the first time, private space company Blue Origin has successfully launched a crew capsule with real windows, measuring 73 centimetres wide and 110 centimetres tall. The capsule was released in Texas nearly 100 kilometres above the ground and landed using a parachute. (Blue Origin )

    Private space company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed an upgraded rocket and a new crew capsule that it bills as having "the largest windows in space."

    The seventh flight of the company's New Shepard suborbital spacecraft at the company's West Texas launch site Tuesday carried a test dummy called Mannequin Skywalker, equipped with sensors.

    "He had a great ride," tweeted Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin and Amazon.com, about the launch Tuesday.

    Twelve commercial, research and education payloads were also on board, the company said.

    It was the first time the company launched a crew capsule with real windows, measuring 73 centimetres wide and 110 centimetres tall – that the company hopes will attract space tourists for suborbital rides. The previous test capsule had windows painted on.

    It was also the first time the company equipped the rocket with its next-generation booster. The rocket released the capsule 98 kilometres above the company's West Texas launch site before coming straight back down for a landing.

    The capsule landed using a parachute, and hit the ground at about 1.6 km/h.

    The company had previously launched and landed the New Shepard system on five unmanned test flights. The most recent was in October 2016, when the company tested its capsule's escape system, and was surprised that the rocket landed intact instead of tipping over from the capsule's exhaust.

    It has said it hopes to start taking paying passengers on suborbital flights in 2018, but has not said how much tickets will cost. The pilotless autonomous system is designed to fly six passengers.


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    Default Re: New Space Tourism Entrant by Amazon's Bezos

    We're living in a giant simulacrum, Jeff. Carry on...

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