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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Space Rocket Launch Fails, Crashes To Earth

Jeff Bezos’ space flight company, Blue Origin suffered a tragedy today as its shepherd rocket carrying out experiment crashed back to earth seconds after takeoff with no human on board.

It was just science experiment that was parachuted to safety during the tragic abnormally.

This is a major accident for the Blue Origin company since it started commercial space travel.

Erika Wagner, senior director of emerging space markets said “It appears we’ve experienced an anomaly with today’s flight. This wasn’t planned.”

“But our crew capsule was able to escape successfully,” Wagner added.
According to the Associated Press, the tragedy occurred when “the rocket was traveling nearly 700 mph (1,126 mph) at an altitude of about 28,000 feet (8,500 meters).”

The company has not given details of the crash, but smoke was seen coming out of the rocket’s engine when the tragedy occurred.

The United State aviation Authority (FAA) has said that investigation will be carried out to ascertain the cause of the failure of blue Origin launch and that no human being or property was affected during the crash.

“Before the New Shepard vehicle can return to flight, the FAA will determine whether any system, process or procedure related to the mishap affected public safety,” the FAA said in a statement on Monday.

Blue Origin is a space travel company founded by the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos to carry human and space instruments to space.

The New Shepherd rocket launched in April 2015 by Blue Origin had had 23 total launches with 21 successes.

With today’s crash becoming one of it failures.

John Adoyi, PBA Journalism Mentee

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