Tag: New Shepard
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Blue Origin sends six people on suborbital space trip, marking a first for researchers
Blue Origin’s New Shepard booster lands after a suborbital space launch. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today provided a brief dose of spaceflight to six people, including the first researcher to conduct his own experiment on a suborbital space trip with NASA support. The team for Blue Origin’s eighth crewed…
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Polaris Dawn on hold; SpaceX booster fails on landing
Another busy week of spaceflight activities contained a landing failure of a Falcon 9 booster for the first time in over three years. Looking forward, Falcon 9 could launch up to three times this week, including three Starlink flights. Polaris Dawn’s launch date has been delayed due to an unacceptable weather forecast at the time…
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Blue Origin sets a date for its next flight to launch people and experiments into space
The NS-26 mission’s crew includes a biologist and one of the youngest women to go into space. (Blue Origin Photos) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says its next suborbital spaceflight is set for Aug. 29, with a space researcher and a college senior among the mission’s six spacefliers. Next week’s launch of a reusable…
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Falcon 9’s return to flight reminds spaceflight industry of past anomalies
Nearly every rocket that has flown has had an anomaly. With thousands of components that all need to work in perfect harmony to have a successful mission, there is likely to be one component that is unable to perform every once in a while. While witnessing an anomaly in spaceflight is not as improbable as…
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Blue Origin works towards New Glenn debut, ramps BE-4 deliveries
Over the past few months, Blue Origin has been busy progressing on many of its projects as target dates move closer. New Glenn continues to inch closer to launch, facilities are being expanded, BE-4 engines have been delivered to ULA, and New Shepard has returned to crewed flights. New Glenn With the September launch window…
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Blue Origin resumes human flights to suborbital space, but it wasn’t perfect
More than 60 years after he was denied an opportunity to become America’s first Black astronaut, Ed Dwight finally traveled into space Sunday with five other passengers on a 10-minute flight inside a Blue Origin capsule. Dwight, a retired Air Force captain and test pilot, had a chance to become the first African American astronaut.…
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Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space history
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifts off from its West Texas pad. (Credit: Blue Origin) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today resumed sending people on suborbital space trips after a 21-month gap, and made a Black aerospace pioneer’s 60-year-old dream come true in the process. “Man, it feels good to be flying again,”…
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Blue Origin sets the date for its first crewed suborbital space trip in 21 months
A photo from August 2022 shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship sitting on its West Texas launch pad in advance of the company’s most recent crewed mission. (Blue Origin Photo) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has set the date for the long-delayed start of its next chapter in the history of spaceflight. Six…
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Blue Origin puts a test pilot who could have been NASA’s first Black astronaut on its next space crew
Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight missed out on space in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Ed Dwight via National Geographic) If the fates decided differently, Air Force test pilot Ed Dwight could have become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s — but he lost out, amid racial controversy. Now he’s in line to travel to…
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Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket flies for first time in 15 months
With redesigned engine components, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket took off from West Texas and flew to the edge of space on Tuesday with a package of scientific research and technology demonstration experiments. This was the first flight of Blue Origin’s 60-foot-tall (18-meter) New Shepard rocket since September 12, 2022, when an engine failure destroyed…