{"id":11558,"date":"2021-07-20T17:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T17:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:49:56","slug":"bezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bezos flies to space on Blue Origin\u2019s first crew launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52656\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52656\" style=\"width: 1400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52656\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ns16_postlanding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ns16_postlanding.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ns16_postlanding-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ns16_postlanding-678x458.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ns16_postlanding-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk, and Mark Bezos pose with the New Shepard booster that carried them to space Tuesday. Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother, a pioneering female pilot, and an 18-year-old Dutch student launched to the edge of space Tuesday on a 66-mile-high suborbital flight aboard his company\u2019s New Shepard rocket, the latest achievement in a new era of billionaire-backed human spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos, joined by his younger brother Mark, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and 18-year Oliver Daemen from the Netherlands, boarded the New Shepard capsule just after sunrise at a privately-owned launch site north of Van Horn, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing blue flight suits, the four-person crew rode in Rivian electric trucks from Blue Origin\u2019s training center to the launch site, climbed the launch pad tower, and took their seats inside the spaceship sitting on top of a 60-foot-tall (19-meter) booster. After a smooth countdown, the New Shepard booster lit its hydrogen-fueled BE-3 engine at 8:11 a.m. CDT (9:11 a.m. EDT; 1311 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The single stage New Shepard booster climbed away from Blue Origin\u2019s Launch Site One and rocketed into a sunny sky, exceeding the speed of sound in about one minute before quickly accelerating through the stratosphere.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1417488209353785349&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2021%2F07%2F20%2Fbezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch%2F&amp;sessionId=7645cf4e10d2857a357f7a4030675a5dfc1dcabd&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1417488209353785349\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782468453094170207=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here\u2019s a replay of the launch of Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket at 8:11am EDT (9:11am EDT; 1311 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>This was the 16th flight of a New Shepard rocket, the third launch of this reusable booster, and the first New Shepard to carry people.https:\/\/t.co\/4NLTXMaNI1 pic.twitter.com\/zKvccMYfon<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 20, 2021<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The BE-3 engine shut down about 2 minutes, 20 seconds, into the flight, leaving the rocket and crew capsule to coast to the apogee, or high point, of its up-and-down trajectory. Moments later, the rocket separated from the spacecraft carrying Bezos and his crewmates, allowing the passengers to briefly unstrap from their seats and float in the gumdrop-shaped capsule.<\/p>\n<p>The four-person crew had a chance to look out six windows, enjoying views of the Southwest United States under the deep black backdrop of space. An in-cabin video released after the flight showed the passengers floating in the capsule, appearing elated with the experience as they played with candy and other items.<\/p>\n<p>The capsule reached a maximum altitude of 351,210 feet about four minutes after launch and began descending back to Earth. Top speed on ascent was 2,233 mph (3,595 kilometers per hour), according to Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>The reusable rocket deployed drag brakes to slow its descent, then reignited its throttleable BE-3 engine and extended four landing legs for a pinpoint touchdown more than seven minutes after liftoff, arriving on a landing pad about two miles north of the launch site.<\/p>\n<p>Double sonic booms rippled across the barren landscape as the rocket returned to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The 12.5-foot-wide (3.8-meter) crew capsule opened three main parachutes to slow down for landing on the desert floor at Bezos\u2019s 80,000-acre West Texas test site nearly 11 minutes after it took off.<\/p>\n<p>The crew\u2019s families and friends greeted the spaceship after landing. Bezos, the world\u2019s richest man, emerged from the capsule wearing a cowboy hat, and Funk exited the hatch with arms outstretched, celebrating her first trip to space 60 years after her first taste of astronaut life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBest day ever!\u201d Bezos exclaimed soon after landing.<\/p>\n<p>The mission added four more space fliers to the roster of people who have reached an altitude of at least 50 miles (80 kilometers) above Earth, the boundary of space recognized by NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 587 individuals who have flown to that altitude since 1961.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1417478879544021001&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2021%2F07%2F20%2Fbezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch%2F&amp;sessionId=7645cf4e10d2857a357f7a4030675a5dfc1dcabd&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1417478879544021001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782468453094170207=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen are out of the crew capsule after landing in West Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Funk, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer, became the oldest person to fly in space. Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch student, became the youngest.https:\/\/t.co\/4NLTXMaNI1 pic.twitter.com\/epLGnOfFqd<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 20, 2021<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bezos made his fortune with the founding of Amazon in 1994. His net worth is currently more than $200 billion, according to Bloomberg and Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>He established Blue Origin in 2000, leading to development of the New Shepard suborbital booster and crew capsule. Tuesday\u2019s flight was be the first time a New Shepard rocket took off with people on-board, following 15 straight successful test launches without passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos, 57, asked his younger brother Mark, 53, to join him on the New Shepard spaceflight. He also invited 82-year-old female aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who was one of 13 women who endured the same rigorous testing as the all-male original Mercury 7 astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>Funk and the other female pilots were part of a privately-funded astronaut screening testing program in the early 1960s that was unsanctioned by NASA, which only selected male astronauts in that era.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth crew member was Blue Origin\u2019s first paying passenger, an 18-year-old Dutch student named Oliver Daemen who took the place of an auction winner who bid $28 million for the seat last month. Blue Origin says the auction winner, who wants to remain anonymous, backed out of today\u2019s flight due to a scheduling conflict and will launch on a later New Shepard flight.<\/p>\n<p>Daemen\u2019s father is Joes Daemen, founder of Somerset Capital Partners. He participated in the auction last month and won a seat for his son on the second New Shepard Launch with passengers. Blue Origin bumped Daemen up to the first passenger flight after the auction winner decided to fly on a later mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy expectations were high, and they were dramatically exceeded,\u201d Bezos said after Tuesday\u2019s flight. \u201cThe zero G (zero gravity) piece may have been one of the biggest surprises because it felt so normal. It felt almost like we, as humans, evolved to be in that environment, which I know is impossible, but it felt so serene and peaceful floating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daemen agreed, adding that it felt \u201cnatural\u201d to move around in microgravity for the few minutes the capsule was in space.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos described the experience of seeing the atmosphere as a thin veneer over Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get up above it, what you see is it\u2019s actually \u2026 this tiny little fragile thing, and as we move about the planet, we\u2019re damaging it,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s very profound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1417539477858406403&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2021%2F07%2F20%2Fbezos-flies-to-space-on-blue-origins-first-crew-launch%2F&amp;sessionId=7645cf4e10d2857a357f7a4030675a5dfc1dcabd&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1417539477858406403\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782468453094170207=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Jeff and Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, and Oliver Daemen just visited the New Shepard booster on its landing pad in Texas, a few hours after the rocket carried them to space. https:\/\/t.co\/4NLTXMaNI1 pic.twitter.com\/HJ2LzV06wH<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) July 20, 2021<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin flew several aviation artifacts on the suborbital space shot, including a piece of canvas from the Wright Flyer and Amelia Earhart\u2019s goggles.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bezos said the flight was \u201cincredibly exhilarating.\u201d He said the passengers pulled 5Gs during descent.<\/p>\n<p>Funk, an accomplished flight instructor with more than 19,000 flight hours in airplanes, said the launch into space Tuesday \u201cfelt great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved every minute,\u201d she said. \u201cI just wish it had been longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she would have liked to do more twists and rolls as she floated in space.<\/p>\n<p>The New Shepard booster is named for NASA astronaut Alan Shepard, who became the first American to travel in space in 1961 on a similar suborbital trajectory as the one flown by Blue Origin. Shepard\u2019s daughters viewed the New Shepard launch Tuesday as guests of Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019s launch to the edge of space came nine days after billionaire Richard Branson rode his company\u2019s rocketplane to an altitude of 282,000 feet (53 miles; 86 kilometers) over New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Branson\u2019s flight was the first time Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo rocketplane has flown with a full complement of passengers, but the company previously completed three piloted flights over the 50-mile (80-kilometer) mark with the VSS Unity spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s rocket can fly to a higher altitude, above the so-called K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, the internationally-recognized edge of space at an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers).<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, has advanced beyond suborbital missions. SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket is the one of the most reliable satellite launchers in the world, and the company\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft has ferried NASA astronauts to the International Space Station three times.<\/p>\n<p>While the billionaires often eschew comparisons between them, and deny suggestions they\u2019re in a race, they all started their space companies in the early 2000s. Bezos established Blue Origin first, in 2000, followed by Musk\u2019s founding of SpaceX in 2002 and Branson\u2019s unveiling of Virgin Galactic in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Branson tweeted his congratulations to Blue Origin\u2019s team Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cWell done Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, Mark, Wally, and Oliver,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cImpressive! Very best to all the crew from me and all the team at Virgin Galactic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Musk also tweeted \u201ccongrats\u201d to Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the technical accomplishments, questions remain about the market for suborbital space tourism, mainly due to the steep price.<\/p>\n<p>A ticket for a seat on a Virgin Galactic flight costs between $250,000 and $500,000. Bezos declined to answer questions from reporters Tuesday on the cost of a New Shepard seat, but the initial tranche of auctioned seats sold for millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin plans two more New Shepard flights with passengers later this year.&nbsp;Bezos said Blue Origin is approaching $100 million in New Shepard ticket sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemand is very, very high,\u201d he said after Tuesday\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n<p>He said the state of the commercial human spaceflight industry is similar to the \u201cbarnstormer phase\u201d of aviation a century ago. Advocates for the space tourism industry say it will eventually open up access to space for more people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are biplanes, and they\u2019re flying into a farmer\u2019s field and charging a price to fly people around for a few minutes in the air,\u201d Bezos said. \u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re doing right now. But you know where that barnstorming phase leads? To 787s, and that\u2019s what we have to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Daemen, Jeff Bezos, Wally Funk, and Mark Bezos pose with the New Shepard booster that carried them to space Tuesday. 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