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　　on Monday, local time, a rocket of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin company malfunctioned shortly after liftoff. The rocket landed its capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert, according to company and mission site video.

　　The rocket carried no human crew. On the morning of September 12, local time, it lifted off from Blue Origin's launch site in western Texas. This is the company's 23rd New Shepard rocket launch mission, designed to serve the United States. NASA-funded experiments and other payloads are sent to the edge of space and float for minutes in microgravity.

　　However, just a minute after liftoff, about 5 miles (8.05 kilometers) above the ground, the rocket's booster engine suddenly and unexpectedly caught fire during its ascent. Immediately, the capsule's abort motor system was triggered almost immediately, ejecting the capsule's faulty rocket and returning to the ground intact.

　　The booster crashed in a designated danger zone, according to the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees and manages launch site safety. The agency added that Blue Origin's New Shepard rockets have been grounded until the FAA signs off on the company-led investigation into the accident.

　　In a tweet following the accident, Blue Origin said: ""During today's flight, the capsule escape system successfully separated the capsule from the booster. The booster finally hit the ground. No casualties were reported. "

　　The mission, code-named NS-23, is Blue Origin's first New Shepard launch without a human crew in more than a year, and the company's fourth mission in 2022. In Blue Origin's suborbital space tourism business, the rocket-capsule system has carried a total of 31 people, launching paying customers to the edge of space about 62 miles high, enjoying a few minutes of microgravity at the edge of space, and then Their capsule returned to the ground by parachute.

　　Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, who founded Blue Origin in 2000, would have been a passenger on the New Shepard's first manned mission in 2021.

　　The rocket that crashed on Monday had flown eight previous missions, but it is unclear whether its previous missions carried human crews. Blue Origin conducted 15 flight tests of the New Shepard before its first crewed flight.