Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is set to launch its New Shepard rocket for the sixth time this year on Saturday.
The mission, called NS-19, marks the first time the company will launch six passengers at once and carries a crew of two guests and four customers.
[The livestream is slated to begin at 8:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see the web player above.]Blue Origin is set to launch its New Shepard rocket for the sixth time this year on Saturday, a mission that marks the first time the company will launch six passengers at once. The rocket will launch from Blue Origin's private facility in West Texas, aiming to reach above 100,000 kilometers before returning to Earth safely a few minutes later. From start to finish, the launch is expected to last about 11 minutes. The crew is set to experience about three minutes of weightlessness.
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