Share the news to friends and circles of friends with wechat scanning QR code < / P > < p > on August 19. According to foreign media reports, on Wednesday local time, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue origin announced that it would conduct the 17th flight of the new Shepard suborbital spacecraft on August 25, including 18 commercial payloads < p > the space flight is scheduled to take place at 9:35 a.m. EDT on August 25. The new Shepard will take off from the launch site in western Texas. This is the first time that the new Shepard spacecraft has carried out a space mission since the successful completion of its first manned space flight on July 20 < p > Figure 1: in December 2019, the new Shepard suborbital spacecraft of blue origin performed an unmanned mission < / P > < p > the mission code on August 25 is ns-17 and will not carry any crew, but this reusable launch vehicle plus space capsule combination will not enter space empty. Blue origin said that the capsule will carry 18 commercial payloads, including 11 from NASA and thousands of postcards submitted by children through the blue origin non-profit organization future club < p > in addition, the outside of the capsule will be equipped with NASA's derailment, descent and landing sensor demonstration experimental equipment, which is a technology that can help spacecraft land on the moon and other planets more accurately. This will be the second test of some sensor kits by blue origin, which first entered suborbital space aboard the new Shepard in October 2020 < p > during this flight, the new Shepard capsule will also carry the "suborbital tryptych" by Ghanaian artist amoako boafo. Describing the mission of the ns-17, blue origin said that the work included three portraits created by boafo, "painted on the top of the crew compartment on the main parachute cover" < p > the protagonists in these portraits include boafo himself, his mother and the mother of one of his friends. These works of art are part of the uplift art program, which aims to stimulate new ideas and generate dialogue by making space easier to access and connect with human experience < p > Figure 2: in the ns-17 mission planned to be launched by the new Shepard on August 25, 2021, the portrait of Ghanaian artist amoako boafo < / P > < p > Blue origin currently operates two new Shepard suborbital spacecraft. One of them will launch next week to transport research payloads in unmanned missions. The ns-17 will be the spacecraft's eighth space mission < p > Blue origin has a major competitor in the sub orbital space tourism business, virgin galaxy, which conducted its first manned sub orbital mission last month. Virgin Galactic's spacecraft can accommodate six passengers and two pilots. During each execution, the new Shepard will launch horizontally from the air, then glide back to the runway and land. In contrast, the new Shepard is fully automatic, and its two main components can return to the ground with the assistance of a parachute < p > the seat price of Virgin Galactic spacecraft is $450000, and blue origin has not announced the cost of space tourism aboard the new Shepard（ Small) < / P > < p >