Blue Origin Test Flight Was a Successful Failure. Literally, in Fact.

Some good news from Blue Origin: Jeff Bezos, the CEO of the rocket company, reports that the last test flight, where one of the three crew capsule parachutes was intentionally undeployed, was a success. This was the fourth flight of the company's New Shepard rocket --literally, it's the same rocket that had been launched and then landed vertically three times in the past. The rocket is suborbital, which means that it essentially goes straight up, deploys (ejects) the crew capsule, then lands bac...