Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket at 8:15am CST / 14:15 UTC from its Launch Site One in West Texas. The NS-37 mission is the company’s 16th crewed flight, and sent six passengers to suborbital space just past the Kármán Line. Nearly eight minutes after launch, the booster autonomously returned to the landing pad for a soft touch down. A short time after that, the capsule also safely returned the passengers to planet Earth under three healthy parachutes. This marks New Shepard’s nin