LIVE: New Shepard NS-23 uncrewed suborbital launch w/ research payloads

9:10 am EDT (13:10 UTC) Live coverage begins. 9:30 am EDT (13:30 UTC) Launch scheduled. Launch site: Blue Origin’s West Texas Suborbital Launch Facility Destination: Approx. 104 km straight up and straight down Blue Origin’s NS-23 suborbital spaceflight mission will carry 36 customer payloads (no crew this time) to space. Scrubbed on Aug 31 due to high winds. Delayed from Sep 2 due to weather. New Shepard specs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ New Shepard was the world’s first rocket to land propulsively after having been to space (past the Karman Line). They beat SpaceX’s Falcon 9 by 1 month, back in 2015. New Shepard’s capsule is designed to accommodate up to 7 people, and it has the largest windows which have ever flown in space. In July 2021, Jeff Bezos and 3 other passengers rode the first crewed New Shepard flight to an altitude of 107 km (66 mi). Height: 18 m (59 ft) Diameter: 7 m (23.9 ft) Type: Suborbital (straight up, straight down) Max altitude: 389,846 fe