Watch Blue Origin's 'Mannequin Skywalker' ride into space

Rocket man(nequin)!
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Watch Blue Origin's 'Mannequin Skywalker' ride into space
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Behold one of history's greatest partnerships: Man and mannequin, working together so that both may be joined in eternal embrace beyond the stars.

Earlier this week, we excitedly shared video of a successful rocket launch by Jeff Bezo's spaceflight company Blue Origin. In that video, the company offers a peek at Blue Origin's launch site as it sent its suborbital New Shepard rocket and capsule, which included a test dummy nicknamed "Mannequin Skywalker," to the edge of space.

The rocket reached 322,032 feet above Earth's surface before successfully returning to terra firma but now — BUT NOW! — we have video from inside the capsule showing Mannequin Skywalker's trip in full.

The video gives us all a good idea of what it'll feel like when people make the trip. That is, if you don't consider Mannequin Skywalker a person (which is fair). But have you been to the edge of space?

Didn't think so.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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