Jeff Bezos on a space flight at 2300 miles per hour

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New Shepard's suborbital flight hits about 2,300 miles per hour and flies directly upward until the rocket expends most of its fuel. The crew capsule will then separate from the rocket at the top of the trajectory and briefly continue upward before the capsule almost hovers at the top of its flight path, giving the passengers a few minutes of weightlessness. It works sort of like an extended version of the weightlessness you experience when you reach the peak of a roller coaster hill, just before gravity brings Bezos' space capsule back down toward the ground.