A rocket launched by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin failed shortly after its launch, marking the first major incident for the billionaire’s space exploration group since opening up its service to the public.
The New Shepard rocket, which took off from Blue Origin’s facility in west Texas on Monday morning, was not carrying any passengers. It instead was bringing up dozens of experimental items that were to be tested for a brief period in the weightless environment at the edge of space.
A livestream of the event showed a sudden burst of flames engulfing the rocket at 29,000 feet, just over one minute into the launch.
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