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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ The origin of blue Late Monday morning we will be launching a new Shepherd Rocket featuring six crew members, all women.
This mission marks the 11th Blue Origin flight with people on board.
Things you need to know about launches
A general view of the Blue Origin Site explodes on March 31, 2022 on the fourth suborbital tourist flight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Company, with six crew members near Van Horn, Texas. (Reuters/Ivan Pierre Aguirre)
The aerospace company is aiming to lift the new Shepherd Rocket at 9:30am ET.
Blue Shepard Rocket in Texas from Blue Origin’s launch site One, Blue Origin tells its website, “a fully reusable suborbital rocket system.”
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During flight, the six astronauts move over the Kalman line in capsules, and have a short zero gravity before returning to Earth. The 62-mile Earth Kalman Line distinguishes the edges of the universe.
The entire flight is expected to last approximately 11 minutes.
Blue Origin is offering live webcasts for missions scheduled to start at 8am.
All female crew
Six women make up the crew of Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission: Stemboard CEO Aisha Bowe. Bioastronautics Research Scientist Amanda Nguyen; Gail King, co-host of “CBS Morning.” Musician Katy Perry. Film producer Kerian Flynn. Lauren Sanchez, vice-chairman of the Bezos Earth Fund. Same goes for Sanchez Bezos’ fiance.
The origins of Bezo and the blue
Jeff Bezos (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Bezos It created the blue origin about 25 years ago.
The company has conducted 10 human flights at New Shepherd since 2021, with the 10th happening in late February. According to Blue Origin, the Blue Shepard program has a total of 30 flights under its belt.
It also creates the origin of blue Two-stage new Glen RocketIt achieved its first launch in mid-January.
The company describes the rocket as “crucial in efforts to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon, nurture resources in space, provide multi-mission via the blue ring, provide multi-orbital mobility, and establish destinations in low Earth orbit.”
According to a press release, Blue Origin and its April 4th new Glenn Rocket landed a nearly $2.4 billion National Security Space Launch Phase 3 Lane 2 contract in April in seven missions, adding two other “National Security Launch-related” contracts that they received previously.
The company was also tapped by NASA to build a lunar lander in 2023.
Blue Origin Lays off about 10% of the workforce
Maintain the month-earned development contract as part of NextStep-2 Appendix P for NASA’s Artemis v Mission. The $3.4 billion deal covers design, development, testing and two demo missions with Washington-based company Blue Moonlander, a press release from NASA said at the time.
Blue origins compete SpaceXElon Musk Helms, a high-tech billionaire in the space business.
Blue Origin’s first human flight
The first human flight of Blue Origin took place in July 2021. Bezos, his brothers, Mark Bezos, Aviator Wally Funk, and the 18-year-old Oliver Damen joined the mission.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and three passengers will respond to the historic launch on a new Shepherd.
“There are no words, it was the perfect mission,” Bezos said. He told MSNBC After the flight. “I’m not talented enough to put this into words. It accelerated G-force and how it felt, your skin pulls back and shoves into your seat, Zero-G suddenly comes and you’re just floating.”
