✨ In 1961, Alan Shepard 👨🚀, became the first American in space. A decade later Alan Shepard walked on the 🌕 . He carved the frontiers of space exploration so that later we could pave the path. It’s with this legacy in mind that the Blue Origin New Shepard came to be.
✨ The Estes Blue Origin New Shepard 2198 aims to bring that feeling of exploration, and the excitement of a launch, to the hands of everyone.
✨The actual Blue Origin New Shepard stands 59 ft. tall, fires its BE-3 engine for 110 seconds producing 110,000 lbs of thrust. The vehicle ascends through the ☁️☁️, more than 60 miles above the ground, and into the vacuum of space. Here, the passengers experience weightlessness. The capsule, containing the newly minted astronauts, then falls through the atmosphere under 🪂🪂 and touches down lightly on a cloud of dust. The boosters that kick up the cloud allow the capsule to touch down extremely light, at a mile an hour or less.