For the first time ever, private space company Blue Origin will host a live webcast tonight of the launch of its new rocket Blue Shepard, from its home facility in West Texas. Blue Shepard is also not just any rocket, it's also a reusable rocket that can rival SpaceX's Falcon 9.

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Tonight at 10:15 P.M. EST, Amazon's Jeff Bezos who also founded Blue Origin will prove that reusable rockets are the future of manned missions to Mars and beyond, that will revolutionize long term spaceflight and exploration. Typically, rockets are discarded after launching a satellite or cargo resupply shipment to the space station, which then burn up in the atmosphere. Now, rockets are now reused to launch and fly back to Earth autonomously to slash expensive space launch costs.

Blue Origin's first attempt to launch and land safely back a rocket was last November 2015, as this also marked the first rocket to vertically land on Earth after returning from space. Bezos' vision is to transport space tourists into suborbital space, about 62 miles above the plate with these reusable, inexpensive rockets.

Apart from this, Blue Origin aims to carry space tourists by 2018 for them to experience microgravity in lower Earth orbit. Past launches were quite secretive as the private space company rarely gave out interviews as they only publicize the results of the test flights after their completion.

For tonight's launch, Blue Origin will finally demystify their successful test flights, as they launch the new Blue Shepard rocket with live steaming.

Initially, this launch was first scheduled for Friday, however, technical problems with the rocket capsule moved the launch to Sunday. Not only will the Blue Shepard test its rocket, it will test its capsule that is expected to carry humans to suborbital space and back.Three parachutes will be launched after the reusable rocket returns to land, for the crew capsule to land safely back to Earth.

Watch this live webcast on their website, which will commence at 9:45 A.M. EST, Sunday.

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