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Safety, Our Top Mission
Record of Safety
Blue Origin has been flight testing the New Shepard rocket and its redundant safety systems since 2012. The program has had 19 successful consecutive missions including three successful escape tests, showing the crew escape system can activate safely in any phase of flight.
Escape Test
October 19, 2012
Successful test of the crew escape system from the pad.
NS-1
April 29, 2015
First flight of the New Shepard rocket and successful crew capsule misson.
NS-2
November 23, 2015
Landing of the first booster in history to fly to space and back.
NS-3
January 22, 2016
First reuse in history of a booster.
NS-4
April 02, 2016
Successful re-flight of vehicle.
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June 19, 2016
Safe capsule landing with one chute out.
NS-6
October 05, 2016
Successful test of the crew escape system at maximum dynamic pressure (MaxQ).
NS-7
December 12, 2017
First flight of next vehicle.
NS-8
April 29, 2018
Successful re-flight of vehicle.
NS-9
July 18, 2018
Successful test of crew escape system in space.
NS-10
January 23, 2019
Successful re-flight of vehicle.
NS-11
May 02, 2019
Successful re-flight of vehicle.
NS-12
December 11, 2019
100th payload launch to space.
NS-13
October 13, 2020
NASA lunar landing sensor demo on outside of rocket; successful re-flight of vehicle.
NS-14
January 14, 2021
First flight of next vehicle.
NS-15
April 14, 2021
Second successful flight of vehicle.
NS-16
July 20, 2021
On July 20, Blue Origin successfully completed New Shepard’s first human flight with four private citizens onboard.
NS-17
August 26, 2021
Successful re-flight of NASA lunar landing sensor demo on outside of rocket; successful re-flight of vehicle.
NS-18
October 13, 2021
Blue Origin successfully completed its second human spaceflight with four private citizens on board New Shepard.
NS-19
December 11, 2021
Blue Origin's third human flight, and first with six astronauts on-board New Shepard.
NS-20
March 31, 2022
Blue Origin successfully completed its fourth human spaceflight and 20th overall flight on New Shepard.
Safety Features
New Shepard Crew Capsule escape test.
New Shepard Crew Capsule on descent after successful escape test.
