{"id":17378,"date":"2022-06-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origins-fifth-crew-celebrates-firsts-and-seconds-after-suborbital-space-trip\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T16:10:00","slug":"blue-origins-fifth-crew-celebrates-firsts-and-seconds-after-suborbital-space-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origins-fifth-crew-celebrates-firsts-and-seconds-after-suborbital-space-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s fifth crew celebrates firsts (and seconds) after suborbital space trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"501\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-newshepard2-630x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-newshepard2-630x501.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-newshepard2-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-newshepard2.jpg 903w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spaceship lifts off from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Blue Origin sent the first Mexican-born woman and the first crypto-crowdfunded crew member into space today, marking the fifth crewed suborbital flight for Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the firsts, there was a \u201csecond\u201d: the first Blue Origin customer to take a repeat trip to space.<\/p>\n<p>The New Shepard spaceship lifted off from Blue Origin\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:26 a.m. CT (6:26 a.m. PT), sending the crew to a maximum altitude of 66.5 miles (107 kilometers) above sea level \u2014 beyond the 100-kilometer Karman Line that marks the internationally accepted boundary of outer space.<\/p>\n<p>While New Shepard\u2019s reusable booster flew itself back to a landing pad, the crew enjoyed a few minutes of weightlessness and an astronaut\u2019s-eye view of Earth. Just a little more than 10 minutes after launch, New Shepard\u2019s crew capsule made a parachute-aided landing amid the Texas rangeland.<\/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-21: New Shepard launch and landing\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U88uhTBFTZM?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>Blue Origin\u2019s flights tend to feature historical angles \u2014 starting with the first crewed flight, which took place on the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In the run-up to today\u2019s flight, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke delivered a message to the spacefliers from Mission Control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGodspeed,\u201d Duke told them. \u201cI know you\u2019re going to have an exciting adventure, just as I did 50 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Katya Echazarreta, an electrical engineer who\u2019s the co-host of the YouTube series \u201cNetflix IRL,\u201d made a bit of history as the first woman spaceflier born in Mexico. She\u2019s also the first person to fly courtesy of Space for Humanity, a philanthropic venture that sponsors worthy individuals for spaceflights.<\/p>\n<p>Before launch, Echazarreta recorded an inspirational message in Spanish. \u201cI want to dedicate this flight to space to my country, and to the entire Latin American community,\u201d she said. \u201cMy wish is that you see this mission, believe in yourself, and know that you can be the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1533069180055977986&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2022%2Fblue-origins-fifth-crew-celebrates-firsts-and-seconds-with-suborbital-space-trip%2F&amp;sessionId=53ba8f75c15621ccc8544c266649120db2f8b1d7&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1533069180055977986\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i178279977523467677=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cQuiero dedicarle este vuelo al espacio a mi pa\u00eds, y a toda la comunidad Latinoamericana. Mi deseo es que veas esta misi\u00f3n, creas en t\u00ed, y sepas que puedes ser el pr\u00f3ximo,\u201d \u2013 Katya Echazarreta (@katvoltage) pic.twitter.com\/84oy91YqdG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blue Origin (@blueorigin) June 4, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After the mission, Echazarreta said she was overwhelmed by the experience of seeing Earth from far above. \u201cEven now, just thinking back makes my eyes teary,\u201d she told reporters. \u201cAs soon as I looked at our planet, I had just a single tear running down my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Echazaretta \u2014 whose flight was sponsored by donors including Dylan Taylor, the founder of Space for Humanity and a Blue Origin spaceflier himself \u2014 said she now felt an obligation to pay it forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, one of the things I would hear the most was that this dream was not realistic, and that it wasn\u2019t for people like us,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I think my priority going forward is going to be to have other people have this experience. And if I can go with them, then great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another crew member, Victor Correa Hespanha, became the second Brazilian to fly in space and the first \u201ccryptonaut.\u201d His seat was sponsored by the&nbsp;Crypto Space Agency, which is funded entirely by the NFT community through mint proceeds. Hespanha&nbsp;won the trip in a lottery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappiest day of my life,\u201d Hespanha said after the flight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1533229902954172416&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2022%2Fblue-origins-fifth-crew-celebrates-firsts-and-seconds-with-suborbital-space-trip%2F&amp;sessionId=53ba8f75c15621ccc8544c266649120db2f8b1d7&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1533229902954172416\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i178279977523467677=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The view changes you. #NS21 pic.twitter.com\/3gWo5yjDlM<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blue Origin (@blueorigin) June 4, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This was the second go-round for Evan Dick, an investor at Dick Holdings LLC who\u2019s also an airplane pilot and avid sailor. Dick was one of the crew members for last December\u2019s NS-19 mission, flying alongside the daughter of pioneering Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard.<\/p>\n<p>Dick said it\u2019s difficult to explain why he decided to take a second space trip to people who haven\u2019t had the experience themselves. \u201cOnce you see it for yourself, you want to go again, you want to go for longer,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so it was like an obvious thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the six-person crew was Hamish Harding, chairman of Action Aviation; Jaison Robinson, the founder of a commercial real-estate company called JJM Investments and a co-founder of Dream Variations Ventures; and Victor Vescovo, co-founder of Insight Equity, a private equity investment firm.<\/p>\n<p>After last July\u2019s first crewed flight, Bezos said that Blue Origin had enough inquiries to support nearly $100 million in ticket sales, and the company has said that it plans to pick up the pace this year for its suborbital launches. <\/p>\n<p>Unlike Virgin Galactic, which has publicized a&nbsp;$450,000 price tag for its suborbital space trips, Blue Origin negotiates its ticket prices privately and doesn\u2019t disclose how much its customers are paying.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/landing-630x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/landing-630x477.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/landing.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>The reusable New Shepard booster comes in for a landing. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/descent-630x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/descent-630x478.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/descent.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>New Shepard\u2019s crew capsule makes its descent. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/firstpic-630x470.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/firstpic-630x470.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/firstpic-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/firstpic.jpg 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>New Shepard\u2019s crew members pose for a picture in front of their capsule. (Blue Origin via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>This report has been updated with post-flight interviews.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard spaceship lifts off from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin sent the first Mexican-born woman and the first crypto-crowdfunded crew member into space today, marking the fifth crewed suborbital flight for Jeff Bezos\u2019 space venture. In addition to the firsts, there was a \u201csecond\u201d: the first Blue [&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":[509,1250,493],"class_list":["post-17378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-blue-origin","tag-new-shepard","tag-space-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378"}],"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=17378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}