New Shepard Mission NS-23 Webcast

New Shepard’s 23rd mission, a dedicated payloads flight, will fly 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe. The launch window opens at 8:30 AM CDT / 13:30 UTC from Launch Site One in West Texas.
This mission brings the total number of commercial payloads flown on the vehicle to more than 150. Two payloads will fly on the exterior of the New Shepard booster for ambient exposure to the space environment. Eighteen payloads on this flight are funded by NASA, primarily by the Flight Opportunities Program. Among the NS-23 payloads are tens of thousands of postcards from Blue Origin’s nonprofit, Club for the Future, whose Postcards to Space program enables people around the world to fly their visions to space on New Shepard.

[@rmalmeida1976]

Every failure is a learning moment.

[@benni1951]

Huge respect for how the webcast handled the situation. Also congrats on the successful in-flight escape!

[@Why2k4]

Unfortunate turn of events, but glad the escape system worked flawlessly!

[@Bikeguychicago1]

It wasn't completely flawless. That capsule hit the ground hard.

[@Why2k4]

those are the retrorockets, they slow the capsule down, similar to Soyuz or Shenzhou

[@Luvurenemy]

Launch Abort should be the new ride at Disney.

[@Ide2gue]

RIP booster, rest in pieces Glad the escape system works

[@kenfortier5476]

I wanted to see the booster come down!!! 😫

[@zapfanzapfan]

Wow, that got unexpectedly exciting!

[@MikeInTheWoods]

Congrats on a successful handling of the emergency situation!

[@NorthernChev]

Hell YEAH! I'd have loved THAT ride WAY better than the full mission.

[@JontyLevine]

Well done to the commentator for keeping a cool head and explaining the situation to us, as it's likely a situation she hasn't extensively trained for.

[@keruetz]

Space is hard; even suborbital space. Best of luck. Glad nobody was onboard.

[@RWBHere]

Looks like an engine failure at T+1:00. I heard what sounded like an impact at T+03:39, about 6 seconds after the data showed booster touchdown, so if that's true, I guess that it impacted about 2 kilometres [about 1.2 miles in old units] away from the microphone. Hard luck, B.O. I hope that your next attempt is fully successful. Edit: Failure occurred at 1:21:48 in the live stream.

[@tonywells6990]

My girlfriend is a big fan. She has a couple of these in her bedroom.

[@NorthernChev]

That was awesome! Good job BO. Seriously. You gained my respect. But the true test comes in the next few days as we wait to hear if you are open and honest with the public on the failure.

[@kokomo9764]

You are about the only person who has respect for BO.

[@skywatcher1975]

BROWN TROUSERS TIME !

[@Cdodders27]

Engine Rich Exhaust

[@thedarkside13]

"Where are my goddamn engines, Jeff!?" ~Tory Bruno

[@paulcooper8818]

Andrew Lake Senior Director Of New Shepard Safety And Mission Assurance makes a foreshadowing appearance at 38:00.

[@zaheersayyed]

🔥🔥

[@NickzAndMikz]

Was this the first unintentional use of the launch abort system?

[@jamessheppard4372]

Yes

[@fabrice2731]

no there was a soyuz launch which aborted mid-launch

[@ryanhamstra49]

@@fabrice2731 gonna guess he was asking about NS since he said the launch abort and not a launch abort

[@zacharys41]

There was also a planned in-flight abort test in October 2016. It was said the booster would not make it out of the escape motor plume, but it continued to rocket towards space and eventually land on Earth safely. Later, there was another planned in-flight abort. But it occurred right after Crew Capsule separation following a nominal Main Engine Cutoff.

[@chillywang3659]

Yes

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

WOW! Eggciting, .... looked like a thrust chamber failure! 😱👍🇺🇸

[@KsNewSpace]

Holy moly! That's why abort systems exist!

[@jonbong98]

Expensive ride.

[@falco3471]

F for booster 3

[@CoryMckinnonHandle]

Grounded

[@bradleyclark5936]

Ouch.

[@GoatPilot04]

Mortal Kombat WHOOPSIEEEEE

[@curryandrice7764]

"Falling with style" I don't consider that a failure, I'd say it was a success as it was a nice display of safety systems and how well they functioned. Everything is intact (for the most part, I hope) no huge kabooms and what not

[@raphaeloliveira4987]

That first stage for sure kaboomed when it it the ground

[@ftgm090_finsuth_]

Meanwhile at SpaceX…

[@user-jy1lj4il6c]

Кто полетел то?

[@LookatBowen]

What happened to the bottom half (the rocket)? Where did that go?

[@Snatchwrangler1]

It's taking dirt nap.

[@paulsto6516]

Oblivion.

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

It went splatt! 😪👍🇺🇸

[@spacey22]

💩

[@LHA321]

What about the Booster? was it able to recover itself?

[@eduardovadillo8279]

Definitely not

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

Nope! 😪👍🇺🇸

[@LHA321]

@@eduardovadillo8279 yeah most likely not but the Telemetry confused me

[@Paragon643]

at around 1:24:25 ye can hear slight thuds in the background sound, sounds like it smashed down into the ground and exploded as expected.

[@RWBHere]

It looks as though from the on-screen data, and from the sound, it hit the ground about 33 seconds after the anomaly. I might be wrong, so check their Twitter feed.

[@steve318k]

Well that didn't go well 😢

[@weeboy6951]

Sorry guys 😞

[@Aaron_b_c]

Should have used metric

[@DeutscheReich]

F. Better Luck next time

[@roscosmos-ksp5897]

RIP

[@yokaj]

oops

[@DonaldHolben]

HARD landing, if anyone was in there, they would be in bad shape.

[@TinyHouseHomestead]

The landing was nominal, the escape abort Gs, .... WOOOOOHOOOOOO! 🤪🤣👍🇺🇸

[@lasersbee]

1:21:55... The capsule seems to be powered by old Chinese Gunpowder Fireworks.... 1:26:32... Looks like the main booster needs a bit more redundancy....🙄

[@arrashisatyadi7010]

Oof

[@cobramonkie1342]

spacex for the win

[@paulsto6516]

lackadaisy.

[@MrGlenspace]

Great abort system worked but blue origin still has nothing more then expensive theme park ride. Call me when they actually achieve orbit.

[@Verbal_Sin]

Nobody finds it odd that the booster altitude jumped from a couple hundred feet all the way up to over 300,000 feet after the "anomoly" occured...? Seems to me like the on screen data isn't real time, but it just showing what should happen over a "successful" fake launch... Nonsense. Couldn't look less real!

[@petersampson5202]

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[@per619]

Who cares? An embarrassing project A-Z. Now trying to spin it as a dramatic success of the safety system.

[@jamessheppard4372]

Oof