A technical glitch under investigation was released this Monday. travel to space The New Shepard rocket, a mission of Tycoon Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin.

Although the rocket took off from the launch site in West Texas, a few minutes later the escape pod broke apart and landed safely, dangling from several parachutes.

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“This was a non-astronaut payload mission on board. The pod’s exhaust system worked as designed,” he said.

Following the decision, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, in English) said in a statement that it will investigate what happened and analyze whether any processes affect public safety.

This 23rd mission of New Shepard flew with 36 payloads, with experiments from different universities and research institutions.

In addition, the “From Postcards to Space” program included thousands of postcards from the Club for the Future organization, which gave people around the world access to space.

10 minute flight

In July 2021, Blue Origin sent its first manned mission into space via New Shepard Spaceflight and the Rocket System.

The flight took about 10 minutes and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos traveled by plane with his brother Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen. Since then, the company has made six manned flights.

Booster failure on today’s uncrewed flight. The exhaust system was done as designed. pic.twitter.com/xFDsUMONTh

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) September 12, 2022