billionaire Jeff Bezos, who also is the founder of Amazon, successfully returned to Land reusable rocket on the basis of the engine BE-3. Controlled landing of the rocket specialists Blue Origin has made for the first time, because fully reusable rockets in the industry still do not exist: all of them after running into space or destroyed or cannot be restored, reports The Verge.

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billionaire Jeff Bezos, who also is the founder of Amazon, successfully returned to Land reusable rocket on the basis of the engine BE-3. Controlled landing of the rocket specialists Blue Origin has made for the first time, because fully reusable rockets in the industry still do not exist: all of them after running into space or destroyed or cannot be restored, reports The Verge.

the BE-3 was launched to a height of 100 km manned capsule New Shepard. If the capsule were people, they would 4 minutes be able to experience zero gravity, before the beginning of the New Shepard would reverse the fall. The fact that 100 km is still a suborbital altitude. It is not enough to ensure that the machines did even circle on the Earth's orbit.

Subsequently, the capsule returned to Earth using parachutes. While the missile itself used main engines for soft landing on the surface. In the video submitted real footage mixed with computer graphics.

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