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Blue Origin donates New Shepard rocket and crew capsule to Smithsonian

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The Blue Origin booster that became the world's first launch vehicle to place a payload into space before landing upright on its legs has been delivered to the Smithsonian .

A mockup of Blue Origin's New Shepard's crew capsule will go on display at the same time as the rocket at the National Air and Space Museum .

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos once pledged that if his company's first rocket to reach space and land vertically back on Earth then he would "reward it for its service".

Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .

He is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of " Space Stations: The Art, Science , and Reality of Working in Space" In 2021 , he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History..