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LATEST: Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and capsule is now on the launchpad at the company's 'Launch Site One' facility. 'The launch team completed vehicle rollout this morning and final preparations are underway,' Blue Origin tweeted.

Liftoff of the inaugural Blue Origin flight is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET from a rural complex just north of Van Horn, Texas.

In total, the flight will be 11 minutes, with approximately three minutes spent above the so-called Karman line that is defined by some as the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space. After re-entry, the astronauts are set to descend back to Earth in their capsule with a parachute-landing in the west Texas desert.A mural displaying Jeff Bezo and his brother Mark Bezo, is seen in Van Horn, Texas, July 18, 2021.

There is no pilot aboard the fully-autonomous capsule. While Blue Origin's New Shepard has flown 15 test flights, Tuesday's will be the first with humans on board.The definition of"space" has emerged as a heated debate point in the new space race, as Sir Richard Branson took heat for not passing the Karman line during his Virgin Galactic spaceflight earlier this month.

Still, the billionaire daredevils using themselves as guinea pigs for their private space tourism firms have not had the same support astronauts garnered during the original U.S.-Soviet space race. Animosity was exacerbated by reports that Bezos and Musk have

 

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