New Shepard 1

The first flight of the full-scale New Shepard vehicle was conducted on April 29, 2015. The capsule, RSS Jules Verne was successfully recovered via parachute landing, the booster crash landed and was not recovered due to a failure of hydraulic pressure in the vehicle control system during descent.

Type

Booster

Kind

Flown

Vehicle

New Shepard

Mission

• NS-1

Location

Launch Site One, Texas

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