Liftoff is targeted for Thursday, Sept. 18 from the company's Launch Site One in rural West Texas.

Blue Origin will provide a webcast of the launch beginning about 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled liftoff on its website.

Spectators in the region also have a few locations where they may be able to see the spacecraft ascending into the sky.

Blue Origin has rescheduled a long-delayed rocket launch from West Texas that was originally due to lift off in late August.

The spaceflight company, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has become famous for the brief trips to the edge of space it offers to customers on its New Shepard spacecraft. This time, though, Blue Origin announced it is transporting not people, but more than 40 scientific and research payloads intended for te

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