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Urgent: Bezos' Blue Origin launches its 1st space mission of 2018

Xinhua,April 30, 2018 Adjust font size:

LOS ANGELES, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Blue Origin, the U.S. aerospace company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, launched Sunday the suborbital New Shepard rocket and space capsule from its West Texas test site.

The mission marked the company's first flight of the year and second flight of the New Shepard 2.0 spacecraft. Enditem