Tag: space tourism
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‘We did it!’ Globe-spanning travelers take a quick space trip on Blue Origin rocket ship
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship rises spaceward from its Texas launch pad, as seen from a drone hovering above. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Six well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin’s suborbital rocket ship to go where they’ve never gone before: the edge of space. The New Shepard rocket lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based company’s…
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Blue Origin’s all-female space mission sends celebrities and scientists on a suborbital trip
Jeff Bezos extends his arms to hug his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, at the end of an all-female suborbital spaceflight, with Blue Origin trainer Sarah Knights standing by. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Six women rode Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship today on a short suborbital space trip that was notable because of a crew that…
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Jeff Bezos’ fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, will lead female crew on Blue Origin’s next space trip
Blue Origin’s NS-31 spacefliers include Lauren Sanchez, Jeff Bezos’ fiancee; Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings”; pop superstar Katy Perry; and Aisha Bowe, Kerianne Flynn and Amanda Nguyen, three advocates for women in science, technology, engineering and math. (Blue Origin Photos) The next suborbital spaceflight planned by Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is due…
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A taste of space on Earth: Astronaut training startup raises $4M to market way-out experiences
Brienna Rommes, Orbite’s chief astronaut trainer, guides participants in the Astronaut Orientation program through a presentation on spaceflight. (Photo Courtesy of Magali Maricot) Seattle-based Orbite says that it’s completed a $4 million funding round and sealed a strategic deal with Accor, one of the world’s leading hospitality companies, to advance its plans for offering space-oriented…
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Blue Origin flight sends husband and wife on their second suborbital trip to space
New Shepard’s booster lands at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One in Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent six more people to the edge of space today — including the first husband-and-wife pair to make two trips together to the final frontier, and a science communicator who describes herself as…
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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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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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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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Orbite is raising funds as it gets set to expand training programs for spacefliers
Artwork shows an interior view of Orbite’s Astronaut Training and Spaceflight Gateway Campus, with mockups of a SpaceX Dragon capsule and a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule on display. (Orbite Illustration) Orbite Space, a venture that aims to offer down-to-Earth spaceflight training programs on a “try before you fly” basis, is raising more capital amid…
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Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs
Participants in an astronaut orientation session float during a zero-G flight in France in 2021. (Orbite Photo) After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called Orbite is ready to start signing up customers for private-sector astronaut training programs. And although it’ll be a…