NS-27 will mark the debut of the second human-rated New Shepard vehicle, which consists of a first stage known as Booster 5 and a crew capsule named RSS Kármán Line. (The Kármán line is the 62-mile-high boundary that many people regard as the start of outer space.)

Blue Origin has had only one working New Shepard rocket booster since a 2022 explosion took out one of the two it had been using. A replacement booster along with a new crew-capable capsule is set to debut as early as Monday.

Blue Origin’s RSS Kármán Line will fly for the first time as the company works toward mounting a real challenge to SpaceX.

Blue Origin is scheduled to launch its second human-rated vehicle on Monday, Oct. 7, from its West Texas launch site. Blue Origin’s latest New Shepard flight, NS-27, will debut the company’s next-generation human-rated space vehicle.

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