Blue Origin retires a New Shepard capsule after payload flight
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2025, 8:25 AM ET (1225 GMT)
Blue Origin is retiring a New Shepard capsule after a 12th flight on Thursday. The New Shepard vehicle lifted off at 9:00 am EDT (1300 GMT) from the company’s West Texas launch site on the NS-35 mission, carrying several dozen research payloads. The capsule landed a little more than 10 minutes later after completing a typical flight profile to about 105 kilometers. The capsule, called RSS H.G. Wells, will be retired after this flight, the company said, after making 12 suborbital trips since its introduction in 2017. Blue Origin has two other New Shepard capsules it currently uses for crewed suborbital flights.
Blue Origin is retiring a New Shepard capsule after a 12th flight on Thursday. The New Shepard vehicle lifted off at 9:00 am EDT (1300 GMT) from the company’s West Texas launch site on the NS-35 mission, carrying several dozen research payloads. The capsule landed a little more than 10 minutes later after completing a typical flight profile to about 105 kilometers. The capsule, called RSS H.G. Wells, will be retired after this flight, the company said, after making 12 suborbital trips since its introduction in 2017. Blue Origin has two other New Shepard capsules it currently uses for crewed suborbital flights.
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