{"id":17119,"date":"2025-05-31T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/we-did-it-globe-spanning-travelers-take-a-quick-space-trip-on-blue-origin-rocket-ship\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:47:58","slug":"we-did-it-globe-spanning-travelers-take-a-quick-space-trip-on-blue-origin-rocket-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/we-did-it-globe-spanning-travelers-take-a-quick-space-trip-on-blue-origin-rocket-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We did it!\u2019 Globe-spanning travelers take a quick space trip on Blue Origin rocket ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250531-blueorigin3-630x458.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-875044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250531-blueorigin3-630x458.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250531-blueorigin3-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250531-blueorigin3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"wp-element-caption\">Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship rises spaceward from its Texas launch pad, as seen from a drone hovering above. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Six well-traveled adventurers rode Blue Origin\u2019s suborbital rocket ship to go where they\u2019ve never gone before: the edge of space. The New Shepard rocket lifted off from the Kent, Wash.-based company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:39 a.m. CT (6:39 a.m. PT) today for a 10-minute mission.<\/p>\n<p>This was Blue Origin\u2019s 32nd New Shepard suborbital launch and its 12th crewed mission. New Shepard\u2019s booster sent the crew capsule to a height of about 104 kilometers (64.4 miles, or 340,290 feet) \u2014 just beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) altitude that marks the internationally accepted boundary of space.<\/p>\n<p>After separation, the reusable booster descended to a landing pad under autonomous control. Meanwhile, the spacefliers experienced a few minutes of weightlessness and got an astronaut\u2019s-eye view of Earth beneath a black sky. At the end of the ride, the capsule made a parachute-aided descent to the rangeland surrounding the launch site.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2021, Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture has flown 64 suborbital space travelers, including \u201cStar Trek\u201d captain William Shatner and Bezos himself. A previous New Shepard flight in April sent up an all-female crew including pop superstar Katy Perry, CBS morning-show host Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and journalist who is Bezos\u2019 fianc\u00e9e. That mission generated celebrity buzz as well as backlash.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for the NS-32 mission included:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Jaime Alem\u00e1n<\/strong>, a Panamanian attorney, business executive and former ambassador to the U.S. Blue Origin said this flight made Alem\u00e1n the first person to travel to all 193 U.N.-recognized member states, the North and South Poles and outer space.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gretchen Green<\/strong>, a radiologist specializing in women\u2019s imaging with more than 20 years of clinical experience. She\u2019s an alumna of Space Camp and now serves on the U.S. Space &amp; Rocket Center Education Foundation Board.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Jeris<\/strong>, a real estate developer and entrepreneur based in Ohio. He has visited more than 149 countries so far and says he aims to see every nation. \u201cYou guys, we did it!\u201d he said after touchdown.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aymette (Amy) Medina Jorge<\/strong>, a high-school and middle-school STEM teacher at Odyssey Academy in Galveston, Texas. She has led more than 60 space experiments and zero-gravity projects. She was born in Puerto Rico, and her seat is sponsored by Farmacias Similares, a Mexican company that\u2019s committed to social impact and accessible health care across Latin America.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Rocket<\/strong>, an entrepreneur and tech leader from New Zealand. He\u2019s the CEO of Kea Aerospace and the president of Aerospace New Zealand. He was a seed investor in Rocket Lab, where he served as co-director from 2007 to 2011.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesse Williams<\/strong>, a Canadian entrepreneur and adventurer who has reached the summits of six of the seven highest peaks on Earth, including Mount Everest and Antarctica\u2019s Mount Vinson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the travelers, Blue Origin\u2019s crew capsule carried more than 1,000 postcards that were sent in by students as part of an educational campaign organized by the Club for the Future, the company\u2019s nonprofit foundation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Origin NS-32 New Shepard launch and landing\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iZZn-bZgIh8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin\u2019s 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\u2019s suborbital rocket ship to go where they\u2019ve never gone before: the edge of space. 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