A reusable rocket from Blue Origin has successfully completed four missions to space and returned back to Earth. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' private space company, Blue Origin, just launched an unmanned test flight of its Blue Shepard rocket and capsule Sunday evening, from its facility in West Texas, during a live webcast.

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The vision of Blue Origin is to revolutionize space tourism and by offering space tourists to travel to suborbital space, experiencing microgravity at 62 miles above the surface of the planet. As early as 2018, Blue Origin is already planning to bring humans on its first suborbital space trip.

Just yesterday, Sunday of June 19, the space company completed another milestone by successfully crash testing its space capsule that will carry tourists in two years. The capsule successfully landed back safely despite one of its three parachutes malfunctioned during descent.

Apart from SpaceX's Elon Musk and Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson, Bezos is competing to make space travel more convenient and to slash expensive costs by pushing more commercial spaceflights from the private sector and in order to do this, landing safely these reusable rockets is a crucial step in the future of space travel.

According to Blue Origin's business and development strategist Ariane Cornell, during the first live webcast of Sunday's launch, typically, space companies spend millions of dollars including man power hours in building a new rocket for a new space launch mission. This occurs every single flight. Now, upon refurbishing this rocket, it only takes a fraction of a cost at low thousands of dollars.

Cornell even reveals that this new Blue Shepard rocket can allow Blue Origin to launch at least 50 times, that is at least 50 spaceflight missions as opposed to building 50 new rockets every single time.

Last year, Blue Origin and Musk's SpaceX have been carrying out multiple rocket landings and space missions with their new reusable rockets where SpaceX even successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating launch pad droneship by the ocean after launching into lower Earth orbit. SpaceX's next move is to launch one of its used rockets for the first time this fall.

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