The passengers will experience three to four minutes of weightlessness, before their capsule parachutes onto the desert just 10 minutes after liftoff. (Tony Gutierrez / AP) Jeff Bezos Blue Origin is slated to launch its fourth space tourism. Blue Origins motto, 'gradatim ferociter,' or 'step by step, ferociously' in Latin, reflects the. Blue Origin’s 60-foot (18-meter) New Shepard rocket will accelerate toward space at three times the speed of sound, or Mach 3, before separating from the capsule and returning for an upright landing. Blue Origins New Shepard rocket launches from its spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, on July 20, 2021. The organizations goal is to create a future where people live and work in space to benefit Earth.
While the diminutive New Shepard is meant to launch people on brief flights to the edge of space, the mega New Glenn will be capable of hauling cargo and eventually crew into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, possibly beginning late next year.īlue Origin also has its eyes on the Moon. Blue Origin is a private spaceflight company based in Kent, Wash., and started in 2000 by Amazons founder and executive chairman, Jeff Bezos. Nineteen space advocacy and education groups are getting $US1 million each as a result, with the rest to be used by Blue Origin's Club for the Future for its own education effort. The fourth seat on the upcoming flight was auctioned off for $US28 million. The company hasn't disclosed the cost of a ride. Since the founding, the company was very secretive. The Company develops both rocket propulsion systems for vertical takeoff and vertical landing (VTVL) vehicles for access to suborbital and orbital space. ( AP: Blue Origin ) What's next?īlue Origin is expected to open ticket sales soon and has already lined up some of the unsuccessful auction bidders. Blue Origin, LLC, a private American aerospace company, is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin's New Shepard crew capsule descends from space during a test.
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