{"id":21640,"date":"2024-07-27T01:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-to-launch-youngest-woman-across-the-karman-line\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T01:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T17:04:06","slug":"blue-origin-to-launch-youngest-woman-across-the-karman-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-to-launch-youngest-woman-across-the-karman-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin to launch youngest woman across the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=800\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"41109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2024\/07\/25\/blue-origin-to-launch-youngest-woman-across-the-karman-line\/ns26_astrogrid\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"800,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"ns26_astrogrid\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: Blue Origin<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2024\/07\/ns26_astrogrid.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=800&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: Blue Origin\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Origin announced Wednesday its crew for the NS-26 missions. On board will be several high achieving and and lucky individuals that will get the chance to fly and feel weightlessness above the Karman Line. One of the crew members, a daughter of a previous participant, will become the youngest woman to reach 100 km.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-41106\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Shepard, Blue Origin\u2019s suborbital and fully reusable rocket, has flown 26 times, given this mission\u2019s name. This will be the company\u2019s seventh crewed flight and fifth time breaking an age record on a flight.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-blue-origin-ns-26-crew\">Blue Origin NS-26 Crew<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nicolina Elrick<\/li>\n<li>Rob Ferl<\/li>\n<li>Eugene Grin<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Eiman Jahangir<\/li>\n<li>Karsen Kitchen<\/li>\n<li>Ephraim Rabin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karen Kitchen, daughter of previous New Shepard customer Jim Kitchen, is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is studying communications and astronomy. An advocate in getting women to pursue a career in the space industry, this will be a crowning moment in her recent adventures of zero-g flights, centrifugal force training, and scuba diving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The six crew members, the max seating inside a New Shepard capsule, will experience a roughly 10-15 minute flight up to ~100 km before falling back to Earth. Unlike orbital rockets, New Shepard launches straight up, attempting to get as high as possible rather than gaining horizontal speed.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-41106',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will be Blue Origin\u2019s fifth age record (although this will be disputed) on its human spaceflights. The first record was on the company\u2019s first human mission where Oliver Daemen became the youngest person to reach space at 18 years old. Wally Funk (82) was also on that mission and at the time was the oldest person to fly to space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other crew members would beat that age record, first being actor William Shatner (90 years 6 months) on NS-18 then Ed Dwight (90 years 8 months) earlier this year on NS-25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kitchen\u2019s record will be a disputed one as her record will come down to whether you look at the US definition of space or base it off the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line. As on Virgin Galactic\u2018s Galactic-02 mission, Anastatia Mayers (18) flew and was then crowned the youngest woman to fly to space. However, Virgin Galactic\u2019s spaceplanes don\u2019t reach the 100 km (62 miles) mark of the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n Line, they usually just pass the 80 km (50 miles) mark the US views as the boundary of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-21640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640"}],"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=21640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}