On Thanksgiving Day 2015, Blue Origin surprised the space community by vertically landing a suborbital rocket. It's a key step toward Jeff Bezos and his company's goal of an almost totally reusable craft that will launch tourists to space where they will experience a brief period of microgravity, floating about the capsule before shooting back toward Earth and landing softly in the desert with the help of a few parachutes and retro-rockets.

The first vertically landed rocket, the New Shepard, was on display last week and this weekend at the Oshkosh, Wisconsin Experimental Aircraft Association Airventure show, and included a tour of the mocked up crew capsule.