For the first time, Blue Origin put its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship through a couple of minutes' worth of moon-level ...
dock and autonomously refuel the moon-bound ship so it can blast out of Earth orbit and head for deep space. Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then ...
Before the ship loss, the company successfully demonstrated how its massive mechanical arms dubbed “chopsticks” caught the rocket booster at the launch pad for the second time ever.
But during its descent to a planned landing on the recovery ship Jacklyn, named after Bezos' mother, telemetry and video from the rocket froze ... photo-reconnaissance jet was flying nearby ...