Blue Origin’s 37th New Shepard rocket launch was set to lift off Thursday from West Texas, but it was scrubbed at the last minute.
Blue Origin’s next suborbital space launch was set to make history Thursday by carriying a person who uses a wheelchair to space, but it was scrubbed at the last minute. The New Shepard crewed flight, NS-37, was set to lift off from a launch site in West Texas.
The launch window opened at 10 a.m. Central time, with the livestream starting about 40 minutes before launch. The launch was put on hold several times due to upper level winds before it was scrubbed.The six crew members who were set to fly on New Shepard Thursday were:Blue Origin is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Thursday’s flight would have been the 37th New Shepard rocket mission, and the 16th to take humans on a short ride just above the 62-mile altitude that separates Earth’s atmosphere from space. RELATED: Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-2 headed to Mars with NASA's Escapade spacecraftNew Shepard has flown 80 people on launches, including Bezos and other celebrities, including William Shatner, Michael Strahan, Gayle King and Bezos’ wife Lauren Sanchez.
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