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fork(2) [soylentnews.org] writes:

      Were you watching? On Sunday (Jun 19), Blue Origin again launched and landed a Shepard rocket...the same Shepard rocket that's been launched and landed 3 times before. If you didn't catch the webcast of the launch, you can catch it here [businessinsider.com].

      Blue Origin made another leap forward on Sunday, too, by crash testing the portion of its spacecraft intended to carry people. The capsule landed safely even though one of its three parachutes intentionally malfunctioned upon descent." (From CNN [cnn.com]) The company plans to be able to carry passengers into sub-orbital space by 2018.

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