Flight Four One Chute Out
New Shepard flew again on June 19, 2016, reaching an apogee of 331, 504 feet kilometers). It was the fourth flight with this booster and the sixth flight of this capsule. This time, we intentionally did not deploy one of three parachutes on the capsule and proved we could softly land with only two of them open. Weve designed the capsule to have one or two levels of redundancy in every system needed for crew safety, including the separation systems, parachutes, reaction control thrusters, landing re br, br,
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