Jeff Bezos rocket malfunctions on trip to space

The New Shepard rocket and capsule system developed by Jeff Bezos had to be aborted mid-flight due to weather.

After leaving the launch pad, the rocket experienced a malfunction.

The capsule made a soft return to the ground thanks to the help of parachutes.

A bunch of zero-G experiments were the only thing that New Shepard carried.

Vehicles were moving upwards at 700mph while the incident occurred at an altitude of just over 28,000 feet.

The system is designed to push the capsule away from the booster rocket if there are problems.

The in-flight commentary was done by a senior director at Blue Origin.

Shortly after the separation of the capsule from the rocket booster, she said that the flight appeared to have experienced an abnormality.

We don't have any information yet.

Since New Shepard's introduction, it has had 23 missions.

The system started carrying people on short hops above the atmosphere in July 2021. Jeff and Mark Bezos were part of the crew.

Shatner was carried aloft by Flight 18.

The mission was not crewed. The capsule was mostly paid for by the US space agency Nasa and carried 36 different types of objects.

The purpose of these experiments was to exploit the weightlessness experienced at the top of the capsule.

If people had been on board during the aborted flight, they would have experienced a shock at the moment of separation but should have been fine.

The FAA licenses commercial spaceflight in the US

The FAA will determine if any system, process or procedure affected public safety before the New Shepard vehicle can return to flight. It said that this is standard practice for all accidents.