The NS-21 mission is scheduled to lift off at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
New Shepard consists of a rocket and a capsule, both of which are reusable. The rocket comes down for a vertical, powered landing, much as SpaceX'sWhen to watch and what to knowThe NS-21 group of space tourists flying aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft include six individuals. Top row, left to right: Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta and Hamish Harding. Bottom row, left to right: Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson and Victor Vescovo.
Each New Shepard mission lasts about 11 minutes from liftoff to capsule touchdown. Passengers aboard the automated vehicle experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see Earth against the blackness of space. Saturday's flight will be the 21st for New Shepard overall, which explains the mission moniker — NS-21. But it will be just the fifth flight to carry people, following crewed suborbital missions in July, October and December of 2021 and on March 31 of this year.is 26-year-old Katya Echazarreta, a science communicator who will become the first Mexican-born woman to reach space and the youngest American woman to do so.
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