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Blue Origin is getting back into space tourism. On May 19, Jeff Bezos' space company successfully flew six customers to the edge of space and back. The flight interrupted a nearly two-year hiatus in crewed missions. This was Blue Origin's seventh voyage with people on board. Mission NS-25 — a quick walk to cross the Karman Line, the conventional boundary of space, approximately 100 km above the Earth's surface, — launched from the company's first launch pad in West Texas.
Liftoff of #NS25 pic.twitter.com/81W4Pfx8xP
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) May 19, 2024
Among the six people in the New Shepard capsule was 90-year-old sculptor and writer Ed Dwight, a former Air Force captain who was the first black astronaut candidate when he was selected for the training program in 1961. He completed the training, but was ultimately not selected into NASA's Astronaut Corps, and has never gone into space until now. Also on board were venture capitalist Mason Angel, French beer magnate Sylvain Chiron, entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess, retired accountant Carol Schaller and pilot Gopi Totakura. Tourists were briefly able to unfasten their seat belts and feel zero gravity.
The crew landed successfully approximately 10 minutes after launch. One of the capsule's three parachutes did not deploy properly during the return trip, but this did not pose any problems for its landing due to the redundancy of the system, which accounts for such situations.
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This was New Shepard's 25th mission and Blue Origin's seventh crewed flight. The module last flew with a crew in August 2022, but the following month experienced an engine nozzle failure during payload mission launch and no flights took place until December 2023, when payload mission launched. The company does not publicly disclose the cost of the flight for tourists.
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