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PARIS — Blue Origin is retiring a New Shepard capsule that flew a dozen uncrewed missions over nearly eight years. The capsule, RSS H.G. Wells, launched atop its booster at 9 a.m. Eastern Sept. 19 from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas. The NS-35 mission carried dozens of research payloads, but no people, marking Blue Origin’s seventh suborbital …

Blue Origin plans to launch its 35th New Shepard mission on Saturday (Aug. 23), and you can watch live. The commercial spaceflight company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will send its 200th payload above the Kármán line on this uncrewed suborbital flight, which will include experiments and research designed by students, teachers and university teams. The NS-35 flight …