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She says her team is combing through the data from the uncrewed test and fixes will start with the rocket at its pad.
The team will need to conduct another rehearsal before giving the go to launch the crew.
The next launch window now opens on March 6th.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
The company is suspending the space tourism flights of its New Shepard rocket to focus on developing a lunar lander.
The rocket will remain grounded for at least two years.
New Shepard flights have carried 98 humans above the Kármán line, the widely accepted boundary of space about 62 miles above Earth, and then safely back in a capsule.
That includes Bezos himself, along with paying customers and celebrities such as William Shatner and Katy Perry.
The company says the shift allows Blue Origin to focus on building a lunar lander for NASA's human moon missions.
The agency awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract to develop the spacecraft.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
The company is suspending the space tourism flights of its New Shepard rocket to focus on developing a lunar lander.
The rocket will remain grounded for at least two years.
New Shepard flights have carried 98 humans above the Kármán line, the widely accepted boundary of space about 62 miles above Earth, and then safely back in a capsule.
That includes Bezos himself, along with paying customers and celebrities such as William Shatner and Katy Perry.
The company says the shift allows Blue Origin to focus on building a lunar lander for NASA's human moon missions.
The agency awarded Blue Origin a $3.4 billion contract to develop the spacecraft.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
The splashdown marks an early end to SpaceX and NASA's Crew 11 mission.
The crew's medical team determined the astronaut needed an additional examination that could only be done on Earth.