Blue Origin on Thursday launched its fourth crewed New Shepard flight, a 10-minute thrill ride to the edge of space carrying the spacecraft's chief designer and five entrepreneur/adventurers.
Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin launched its fourth crewed New Shepard flight Thursday, a 10-minute thrill ride to the edge of space carrying the spacecraft's chief designer and five entrepreneur/adventurers, including a husband and wife who shared an emotional kiss on the high frontier.
Joining Lai for the sub-orbital flight were philanthropists and space enthusiasts Marc and Sharon Hagle; University of North Carolina professor and world traveler Jim Kitchen; George Nield, president of Commercial Space Technologies and a former manager with NASA and the FAA; and"angel investor" Marty Allen.
"When the engine ignited, my energy level just exploded," her husband said."And then when you get to outer space and you start seeing the blue marble, as everybody describes it, in the black of space, there's no way of describing it. Our grandkids have asked us about it ... and it's just hard to describe." ,Sharon and Marc Hagle embrace after reaching the edge of space aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard capsule.
The New Shepard crew poses in zero gravity : Marc Hagle, Gary Lai, George Nield, Jim Kitchen, Marty Allen and Sharon Hagle."Let me tell you, that was an out-of-body experience," Kitchen said after landing."You're going 2,300 miles an hour, and you feel every bit of that. And then and time stops. ... You see this beautiful Earth and the blackness of the Universe, and it's the blackest black I have ever seen, it is just breathtaking. And wow, that was a moment.
The crew capsule descends toward landing in West Texas after reaching a maximum altitude of 65.9 miles, about four miles higher than the internationally recognized"boundary" of space.The launching marked Blue Origin's 20th New Shepard flight, its fourth with passengers on board and the 24th non-government commercial spaceflight overall.
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