--- title: Watch Jeff Bezos' Rocket Take Off in This Vine description: The BE-3 launched a test flight on April 29 canonical: https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-15T13:16:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:13:54.296Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Jeff Bezos' Rocket Take Off in This Vine og:description: The BE-3 engine had a test flight on April 29 og:url: https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Jeff Bezos' Rocket Take Off in This Vine twitter:description: The BE-3 engine had a test flight on April 29 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Vine of Jeff Bezos' Rocket Taking Off by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 15, 2015 1:16 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley May 15, 2015 1:16 PM UTC Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin appears to have had a successful test flight of its New Shepard rocket on April 29, as seen in a Vine posted by the company on Thursday. The rocket uses a BE-3 engine and has 110,000 pounds of thrust, according to the company. Had any astronauts been on board, Bezos said in a [statement](https://www.blueorigin.com/news), they “would have had a very nice journey into space and a smooth return.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/"},"headline":"Watch This Vine of Jeff Bezos' Rocket Taking Off","datePublished":"2015-05-15T13:16:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:13:54.296Z","description":"The BE-3 engine had a test flight on April 29","url":"https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/","keywords":["space travel"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space-travel/","name":"space travel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3860015/vine-jeff-bezos-rocket/","name":"Watch This Vine of Jeff Bezos' Rocket Taking Off"}}]}] ```