WASHINGTON — After a nearly two year hiatus, Blue Origin flew adventurers to space on Sunday, including a former Air Force pilot who was denied the chance to be the United States' first Black astronaut decades ago.It was the first crewed launch for the enterprise owned and founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos since a rocket mishap in 2022 left rival Virgin Galactic as the sole operator in the fledgling suborbital tourism market.Six people including the sculptor Ed Dwight, who was on track to...
After a nearly two-year hiatus, Blue Origin flew adventurers to space on Sunday, including a former Air Force pilot who was denied the chance to be the United States' first Black astronaut decades ago.
Blue Origin flew adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, reigniting competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold.
WASHINGTON — Blue Origin is set to fly adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, reigniting competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold. Six people, including sculptor and former Air Force pilot Ed Dwight, who was controversially spurned by NASA's astronaut corps in the 1960s, will blast off at around 8:30 a.m. local time (1330 GMT) from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas.Dwight — at 90...
Blue Origin is set to launch New Shepard NS-25, its seventh human flight, to space Sunday carrying 90-year-old Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first Black astronaut candidate. This will be Dwight's first flight to space -- making him the oldest person to make the journey. President John F. Kennedy appointed Dwight in 1961 to the elite Aerospace Research Pilot School -- the Air Force program from which NASA astronauts were chosen -- but despite being recommend by the Air Force he was not chosen for the...
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin had its first flight to space since 2022 on Sunday, May 19. The 11-minute suborbital flight lifted off from Blue Origin’s base in West Texas just after 9.30am local time. The successful trip ended a nearly two-year pause of crewed operations after a mission failure in 2022. Six space tourists were on board Sunday’s NS-25 mission. Former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, the first Black astronaut candidate in the United States, was among them. Passengers experienced...
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Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program.
Blue Origin is back in the space tourism game. Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company successfully flew six paying customers to the edge of space and back this morning, breaking its nearly two-year-long hiatus from crewed missions. This was Blue Origin’s seventh trip with humans on board. The mission — a quick jaunt to cross the Kármán line, or the boundary of space, about 62 miles above Earth — lifted off from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas shortly after 10:30AM ET. The six people inside...
At about 3:46 into the flight, Blue Origin confirmed its NS-25 mission had passed into space, and its astronauts were in zero g space. The capsule is now descending back to earth. [Attachment: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/VrXLTIhdXgkkfIZSuQbwu866eb8=/0x0:1600x898/1600x898/filters:focal(800x449:801x450)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25455109/Screenshot_2024_05_19_at_9.41.53_AM.png]