Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Space Capsule Aces Dramatic In-Flight Escape Test

Blue Origin just took another big step toward flying people to space. The private spaceflight company, which is run by billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, conducted a critical "in-flight escape test" of its crew-carrying New Shepard system today (Oct. 5) — and everything appears to have worked just as expected. Blue Origin is developing the duo to fly people and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space.

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