{"id":17361,"date":"2022-08-04T23:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-carries-the-first-egyptian-and-portuguese-spacefliers-on-suborbital-trip\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T23:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T15:24:56","slug":"blue-origin-carries-the-first-egyptian-and-portuguese-spacefliers-on-suborbital-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-carries-the-first-egyptian-and-portuguese-spacefliers-on-suborbital-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin carries the first Egyptian and Portuguese spacefliers on suborbital trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-blueorigin2-630x430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-714373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-blueorigin2-630x430.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-blueorigin2-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-blueorigin2.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship rises from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture sent six more crew members on a suborbital space ride, including the first Egyptian and Portuguese citizens to reach the final frontier.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to today\u2019s flight from Launch Site One in West Texas, Blue Origin\u2019s list of spacefliers has grown to 31 over the course of a little more than a year. Bezos himself went on the first crewed flight in July 2021, and Florida investor Evan Dick bought two tickets to space.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup for NS-22 \u2014 the 22nd mission for the New Shepard suborbital launch system, and the sixth crewed flight \u2014 set a couple of precedents.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal\u2019s first spaceflier is Mario Ferreira, an entrepreneur, investor and president of Porto-based&nbsp;Pluris Investments. The first from Egypt is Sara Sabry, a mechanical and biomedical engineer who founded a nonprofit called Deep Space Initiative. Sabry was the second Blue Origin crew member sponsored by Space for Humanity, a nonprofit that supports citizen astronauts.<\/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-22: New Shepard launch and landing\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/81kZDxL_N_o?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<p>Rounding out the \u201cTitanium Feather\u201d crew were Coby Cotton, a co-founder of the Dude Perfect&nbsp;sports\/entertainment channel; Vanessa O\u2019Brien, a British-American explorer and former banking executive; Clint Kelly III, who helped pioneer technologies for driverless cars; and Steve Young, former CEO of Young\u2019s Communications LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton\u2019s seat was sponsored by&nbsp;MoonDAO, a crypto-centric collective that aims to decentralize access to space. Although Blue Origin does not disclose how much its spacefliers pay for their flights, crypto sleuths estimated that MoonDAO devoted about $1.25 million to Cotton\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s flight followed the routine established by the previous five crewed missions: Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship blasted off at 8:56 a.m. CT (6:56 a.m. PT), sending the crew capsule beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) Karman Line that marks the internationally accepted boundary of outer space. The maximum altitude was 351,232 feet (66.5 miles, or 107 kilometers) above mean sea level.<\/p>\n<p>During the highest phase of the trajectory, the six spacefliers unhooked themselves from their seats for a few minutes to float in zero-G and look out at the curving Earth through the capsule\u2019s picture windows. Crew members could be heard over a communications link exulting over the experience.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-landing1-630x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-714374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-landing1-630x402.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-landing1-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/220804-landing1.jpg 836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>New Shepard\u2019s booster makes an autonomous landing. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"> New Shepard\u2019s reusable booster made an autonomous landing on a pad near the launch site. Meanwhile, the crew capsule floated down separately to the Texas rangeland on the end of its parachutes. \u201cWe\u2019re not gonna die!\u201d Cotton said half-jokingly as the parachutes opened<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The flight took 10 minutes and 20 seconds from launch to touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s NS-22 mission was part of a one-day launch trifecta also including Rocket Lab\u2019s launch of a classified satellite mission for the National Reconnaissance Office and United Launch Alliance\u2019s sendoff for a Space Force missile warning satellite. SpaceX could turn the trifecta into a quadfecta later today with the scheduled launch of a South Korean lunar probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket ship rises from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin space venture sent six more crew members on a suborbital space ride, including the first Egyptian and Portuguese citizens to reach the final frontier. Thanks to today\u2019s flight from Launch Site One in West Texas, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[509,2373,1250,4625,493,4402],"class_list":["post-17361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-egypt","tag-new-shepard","tag-portugal","tag-space-tourism","tag-suborbital-spaceflight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}