Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Estes Blue Origin New Shepard Build, Part 1, Parts


"Named after Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, the first American to go to space, New Shepard is our reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space."
 
"The Blue Origin feather is a symbol of the perfection of flight. It represents freedom, exploration, mobility and progress. For thousands of years, we humans have been looking up at the birds and wondering what it would be like to fly. Now, we look up to the stars and pursue a bright future for all of us."



The builder's kit parts are clean. The model is BT-60 based.

Parts of interest:
Your Vision In Space Postcard
New print parachute
Half round Tail Cone
18mm Screw on motor retainer rings
3/32" thick laser cut balsa.




Here's a closeup of the new nose cone.
The windows and feather print are very clean with no fuzzy edges.
The shoulder seems long to me.










A new print parachute.
I assume this is the print pattern from the first launches. Recent launches have three blue and red chutes.

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