Blue Origin Successfully Completes 21st New Shepard Mission
VAN HORN, Texas (Blue Origin PR) — Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its fifth human spaceflight and the 21st flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta, Hamish Harding, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, and Victor Vescovo.
“It was an honor to fly this special crew of explorers and true pioneers today,” said Phil Joyce, Senior Vice President, New Shepard. “Thank you to the entire New Shepard team for your tireless work and dedication to this program. Each mission is an opportunity to provide another six people the life-changing experience of witnessing the beauty and fragility of our planet from space. It’s one step in realizing our vision of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth.”
If you are interested in flying on New Shepard as an astronaut or to fly a payload on a future mission, visit BlueOrigin.com.
You can also purchase commemorative merchandise from today’s mission at the Blue Origin Shop.
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Congratulations on a successful flight!
Another joyride showcasing the obscene spending habits of the ultra-rich.
Space Tourism is disgusting. One of the most distasteful and disgraceful features of NewSpace.
“Space Tourism is disgusting,,,”
How can something be disgusting that (according to you) doesn’t even exist?
You must’ve posted “Low Earth Orbit is NOT space” a thousand+ times on various space comment sounding boards.
LEO is not space, yet you loose your mind any time paying passengers go to a LEO station, which should be sacred and reserved for government employees only!
•”Low Earth Orbit stopped being “space” in 1968”
•”LEO- Low Earth Orbit is NOT space”
•”LEO is not really space and is a dead end.”
Hilarious! Literally libraries of adverts from a legion of spacex fanboys regurgitating the same endless hobby rocket and rocket jesus trash for over a decade.
And you troll me like a 9 year with a word game. The sociopath dunce babbling B.S.
Evidently, a great many of the well-to-do never got Gary’s memo.
Would, say, Kate Upton floating naked in the ISS cupola change your mind?
Many congratulations to the passengers and to BO.
How utterly fantastic that the ultra-rich are over-paying (relative to Virgin’s price tag) for joyrides into suborbital space, providing revenue into a company that is working towards its goal of eventually expanging humanity into space permanently, living in O’Neill Cyllinders.
We actually don’t know if anyone is overpaying or not and given that Virgin Galactic is losing a lot of money and they lost support as well as a contract from the UAE space agency because SpaceShipTwo seems to be indefinitely grounded, well, they might not have raised their prices up enough.
Overpaying, in the sense that the consumer is paying above competing market price.
Whether Virgin Galactic will ever be profitable, or whether its investors are losing confidence is irrelevant to the fact that there are consumers willing to pay many times more to fly with Blue Origin than to wait for the next VG flight. In doing so, Blue is generating revenue and gaining experience in human spaceflight operations, vehicle recovery, inspection and ground operations – all things necessary as they move on to larger launch vehicles needed to fulfill Bezos’ O’Neill cylinder dreams.
Even more importantly is that Jeff Bezos seems to be giving a portion of the money earned to his “Club of the Future” to inspire the next generation about space.
All well and good, but I think said youth are more inspired by stuff actually done in space than by PR and rah-rah. Zoomers are a cynical bunch. Getting NS into regular service certainly counts, but Bezos is going to need to up the ante before too much longer.
There’s an old joke about a guy complaining to a liquor store owner over the exhorbitant price a competitor is charging for some potable. “So what’s your price?” says the guy. The store owner names a price five bucks a bottle cheaper. “Great!” says the guy. “I’ll take two!” “I don’t have any in stock,” the store owner says. “My price is just always five bucks a bottle cheaper when I’m out.”
Eat the rich. Or at least let them pay through the nose up-front to break trail for the rest of us.
At least Amazon started unionizing after Bezos thanked his employees for making his billionaire joyride possible.