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Old 22nd Jul 2021, 06:49
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FWIW the answer (as far as it goes) is tucked away on the Blue Origin website and was a phrase used pretty much verbatim by the official commentator on the day..

The bottom of the capsule has a retro-thrust system that expels a pillow of air so the capsule lands at just 1.6 km/h (1 mph) ”…

so unlike Soyuz it’s not a pyrotechnic system, which would explain the lack of flames, smoke, and relative lack of dust.
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