Launches: 1. Success Rate: 100.00%. First Launch Date: 2006-11-13. Last Launch Date: 2006-11-13. Launch data is: continuing.

2006 November 13 - Blue Origin -. First test launch of New Shepard subscale prototype Spacecraft: New Shepard. Agency: Blue Origin. The test vehicle, dubbed Goddard, lifted off and landed vertically, and reached 90 m altitude. The launch, delayed twice for winds, came at the end of a three-day FAA-approved window. Video and pictures issued indicated that the test vehicle was a subscale (about 84%) version of the final manned vehicle; and that it used a hydrogen peroxide monopropellant rocket engines in place of the hydrogen peroxide/kerosene engines planned for the production vehicle.