Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket successfully completes crewed mission to space

Six astronauts took a brief trip to suborbital space on Blue Origin’s first crewed flight in two years.

While the previous mission, in 2022, went well, the company did an uncrewed research flight a month later which wasn’t so successful.

The unmanned rocket had an engine nozzle malfunction which caused the New Shepard capsule to abort and blast away from the rocket. It did parachute to a safe landing, but this hiccup meant the New Shepard had to be grounded while Blue Origin investigated and could fix the problem.