{"id":17379,"date":"2022-06-03T23:07:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origins-next-suborbital-spaceflight-is-blazing-new-trails-for-getting-a-ticket-to-ride\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T23:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:07:28","slug":"blue-origins-next-suborbital-spaceflight-is-blazing-new-trails-for-getting-a-ticket-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origins-next-suborbital-spaceflight-is-blazing-new-trails-for-getting-a-ticket-to-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin\u2019s next suborbital spaceflight is blazing new trails for getting a ticket to ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full-width\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-630x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-702464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-630x406.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-1260x811.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/220604-nscrew-2048x1318.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption>The crew for Blue Origin\u2019s NS-21 mission: Victor Vescovo, Victor Correa Hespanha, Katya Echazarreta, Jaison Robinson, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick. (Blue Origin Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The suborbital tours provided by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin\u2019s space venture have been notable for who was flying, but the mission set for launch on Saturday is just as notable for how some of its crew members are getting to fly.<\/p>\n<p>One spaceflier, Katya Echazarreta, is the first beneficiary of Space for Humanity\u2019s Citizen Astronaut Program, a philanthropic effort that sponsors spaceflights for worthy applicants. Echazarreta, an electrical engineer who\u2019s the co-host of the YouTube series \u201cNetflix IRL\u201d and a member of CBS\u2019 \u201cMission Unstoppable\u201d team, will be the first Mexican-born woman to reach the final frontier.<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post, Echazarreta said she looks forward to experiencing the Overview Effect, a broadening of perspective associated with viewing Earth from space. \u201cI plan on coming back ready to continue changing the world,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Another crew member, Victor Correa Hespanha, will be the second Brazilian to fly in space and the first \u201ccryptonaut.\u201d His seat is sponsored by the Crypto Space Agency, which is funded entirely by the NFT community through mint proceeds. Hespanha won the trip in a lottery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first dream is to become a soccer player,\u201d he said in a video posted to Twitter. \u201cAnd the second one is to be an astronaut, because I have so many curiosities to explore in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evan Dick, an investor at Dick Holdings LLC, will be the first person to take a second flight on Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. He 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>Rounding out the six-person crew are 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>This will be the fifth crewed suborbital space launch for Blue Origin, which has flown such luminaries as Star Trek captain William Shatner, aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Bezos himself. Liftoff from the company\u2019s Launch Site One in West Texas is scheduled for as early as 8 a.m. CT (6 a.m. PT) Saturday, with streaming coverage set to begin via Blue Origin\u2019s website and YouTube at T-minus-60 minutes.<\/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=\"The NS-21 Crew\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9BoQKzXPms?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>There\u2019s always a chance that weather or technical snags could create delays. Two weeks ago, Blue Origin called off an earlier launch attempt when engineers determined that one of New Shepard\u2019s backup systems was not meeting their expectations for performance.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming all goes according to plan, New Shepard\u2019s hydrogen-fueled booster will send the crew capsule beyond the 100-kilometer (62-mile) line that marks an internationally accepted boundary for outer space. <\/p>\n<p>The spacefliers will experience a few minutes of weightlessness and look out at the curving Earth through the capsule\u2019s picture windows. The autonomously controlled booster will land itself not far from the launch pad, while the capsule will make a parachute-aided touchdown amid the Texas rangeland. The whole trip should take a little more than 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Virgin Galactic, which has publicized a $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. But the routes followed by Echazaretta and Hespanha suggest that not everyone will need to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their ride to space.<\/p>\n<p>Although Echazaretta is the first \u201ccitizen astronaut\u201d sponsored by Space for Humanity, she\u2019s not the first commercial spaceflier to have a ticket to space purchased by someone else. Last year, three spacefliers had their orbital fares covered by billionaire Jared Isaacman for the philanthropic Inspiration4 mission.<\/p>\n<p>Going back further, British chemist Helen Sharman flew to Russia\u2019s Mir space station in 1991 after being selected in a privately funded campaign called Project Juno.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday\u2019s mission is known as NS-21 because it\u2019s the 21st New Shepard flight (counting uncrewed launches). Here\u2019s the schedule for NS-21, which has a launch window opening at 8 a.m. CT (6 a.m. PT):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>T-minus-7.5 hours:<\/strong> Rocket rollout <\/li>\n<li><strong>T-minus-3 hours:<\/strong> Propellant load <\/li>\n<li><strong>T-minus-45 minutes:<\/strong> Astronauts head out to pad <\/li>\n<li><strong>T-minus-35 minutes:<\/strong> Capsule ingress <\/li>\n<li><strong>T-minus-24 minutes:<\/strong> Hatch closed <\/li>\n<li><strong>T-minus-10 minutes:<\/strong> Final \u201cgo\u201d for launch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert;\"><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew for Blue Origin\u2019s NS-21 mission: Victor Vescovo, Victor Correa Hespanha, Katya Echazarreta, Jaison Robinson, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick. (Blue Origin Photo) The suborbital tours provided by Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin\u2019s space venture have been notable for who was flying, but the mission set for launch on Saturday is just as notable for [&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":[],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379"}],"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=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}