Blue Origins launched for the first time since August 2022. It was the program's 25th mission and its seventh human spaceflight.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ’s aerospace company, Blue Origin, has ended its nearly two-year human spaceflight drought by sending its Shepard rocket capsule to suborbital space for a brief trip.
Six people, including the United States’ first Black astronaut, were sent to space for the NS-25 mission.According to the aerospace company, the New Shepard has flown 37 people into space, including the six on the NS-25 program.According to the company, the astronaut crew included Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight. In 1961, President John F.
The NS-25 Crew. From left to right: Gopi Thotakura, Mason Angel, Carol Schaller, Ed Dwight, Ken Hess, and Sylvain Chiron.Phil Joyce, senior vice president of New Shepard. Each of you is a pioneer helping to advance our mission to build a road to space for the benefit of Earth.” The passengers got to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see our planet against the blackness of space from a maximum altitude of around 65.7 miles .
The trip was quite short, and it ended with a touchdown in Texas, with the help of a parachute, just 10 minutes after liftoff.Blue Origin manufactures the New Shepard exclusively for space tourism. It is designed to transport passengers into suborbital space using a crew capsule. The reusable rocket first made headlines when it beat SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster to become the first rocket to make a soft landing.
The aerospace company has not revealed the price it charges per passenger for a suborbital trip on New Shepard rockets. Abhishek brings a wealth of experience in covering diverse stories across different beats. Having contributed to renowned wire agencies and Indian media outlets like ANI and NDTV, he is keenly interested in Tech, Business and Defense coverage.
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