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Blue Origin pulled off a spaceflight hat trick today as its New Shepard rocket completed its third powered landing. In a series of tweets, company founder and CEO Jeff Bezos confirmed the third flight of the reusable booster from its test site in Texas. The rocket flew to an altitude of 339,178 feet (103 km) before releasing its unmanned Crew Capsule, which returned to Earth using parachutes.
Today's flight marks the third time in a row that the same New Shepard rocket has flown, then made a powered landing. According to Bezos, the very low altitude flight was designed to test the ability of the engines to restart quickly and at high thrust. Failure to do so would have resulted in a ground impact within six seconds.
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