Following this flight, New Shepard will have carried a total of 47 people beyond the Karman line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.
Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission.
That mission is known as NS-30, because it will be the 30th overall launch of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket-capsule combo.
Last week, Blue Origin’s reusable New Shepard rocket—equipped with 30 payloads from NASA and other partners—simulated the moon’s gravity for two minutes during a suborbital flight.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home. Blue Origin ...
One major departure from Blue Origin's past New Shepard flights is the spin maneuver to create the effect of one-sixth Earth's gravity (simulating the gravity of the moon) during the NS-29 mission.
Blue Origin's NS-29 New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch Feb. 4 after a weeklong delay. Here's what to know ...
He noted, though, that demonstrating the in-flight relight of the BE-4 engines was one thing Blue Origin could not demonstrate ... it is developing for NASA’s Human Landing System program.
It was Blue Origin’s first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth ... CEO Dave Limp posted on X ahead of the flight. The New Shepard rocket landed as planned ...
Blue Origin successfully performed its 29th New Shepard flight and 14th payload mission ... simulating one-sixth of Earth’s gravity for around two minutes. “Commercial companies are critical ...
Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin ... to take human beings back to the lunar surface before the end of the second Trump presidency. Any long delay would place that goal in doubt. The first flight of ...
It was Blue Origin’s first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth ... CEO Dave Limp posted on X ahead of the flight. The New Shepard rocket landed as planned ...