Blue Origin Will Test Its Capsule Abort System ... in Flight!

Come October, the private space company Blue Origin will put on quite a show. The company has already flown its New Shepard rocket four times into space--above the arbitrary but common-sense 100 kilometer height above Earth's surface--and landed it successfully on its tail. It also have tested the crew capsule on top, deploying it more than once, including the last time when one parachute of three was purposely not used, to see how the capsule would do with only two (it landed just fine). But th...