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Aspiring space tourists, pack your bags. Blue Origin, the space-tourism company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, olaunched and vertically landed its New Shepard rocket near Van Horn, Texas.
"Flawless BE-3 restart and perfect booster landing," Mr. Bezos tweeted Saturday morning, referring to the rocket's BE-3 engine.
This was the third successful landing since November 2015 of Bezos’s New Shepard rocket, named after astronaut Alan Shepard, who was the first American to reach space in 1961.
The successful landing marks a major accomplishment for the company and for the commercial spaceflight industry, which includes companies such as SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, all trying to build reusable rockets to make spaceflight affordable.
The multi-million-dollar rockets are currently used to deliver satellites into orbit above Earth, or cargo to the International Space Station.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX also landed the first stage, or the bottom section of its Falcon 9 rocket, in December 2015.
While Blue Origin has been quietly building its launch and land capabilities as it prepares to begin flying passengers to space in 2018, SpaceX has been publicly testing rocket landings while delivering billions of dollars and many tons worth of commercial satellites and NASA cargo to space.
Its rockets travel further and at much higher speeds than the New Shepard has so far.
Until Saturday’s launch, which Bezos for the first time announced in advance, Blue Origin has been secretive about its activities, guided by a company motto that describes its slow and meticulous process: "Gradatim Ferociter".
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0403/Jeff-Bezos-s-rocket-aces-its-landing-could-fly-humans-by-2018