Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin successfully launched its fifth tourist flight into space on Saturday. Six people were taken into space above the Karman Line – an internationally recognized boundary of space that is 62 miles (100 km) above Earth’s surface – in a typical 11-minute flight.
The flight took off at 9:25 a.m. EDT from the company’s facility at Launch Site One, western Texas. The New Shepard consists of a rocket and a capsule, both of which can be reused. The booster descends shortly before the capsule arrives, with a powered vertical landing as the first stage SpaceX Falcon 9 orbital rockets do.
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The flight was the 21st overall blue original and New Shepard. This was the second crewed flight for the company this year after NS-20, which launched and landed on March 31. Earlier, it was supposed to take off on May 20, but it was canceled due to some issues facing the vehicle, which the company called off. not disclosed.
Crew investor and NS-19 astronaut Evan Dick, electrical engineer and former NASA test lead Katya Ecazzarreta, business jet pilot and Action Aviation chairman Hamish Harding, civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, co-founder of Adventurer and Dream Variation Ventures Founder Jason Robinson. and Victor Vescovo, Commander, USN (retired), explorer and co-founder of private equity firm Insight Equity.
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Accaretta became the first Mexican-born woman and the youngest American woman to fly in space, while Hispanha was the second Brazilian woman to fly in space. The company made its fourth manned flight to the edge of space in March with six people on board.
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