Blue Origin launches record 6th spacecraft to Fly NASA Science, Student Art to Space
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Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, made its record sixth launch, to carry NASA experiments, student art projects and thousands of postcards from kids on a suborbital trip to space today. The company used its reusable New Shepard spacecraft and rocket to launch the NS-12 mission today after a 24-hour delay due to bad weather. The spacecraft was launched at 12:53 p.m. from West Texas.