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Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into the record books today — a trip that also marked a giant leap toward making space tourism routine. based venture’s suborbital space program. (Blue Origin via YouTube). The whole trip took a little more than 10 minutes.

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Blue Origin teams up with Sierra Space, Boeing and others on ‘Orbital Reef’ space station project

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The plan, announced today at the International Astronautical Congress in Dubai, is among about a dozen proposals being submitted to NASA for a share of development funds under a program that’s aimed at preparing the way for replacing the International Space Station. “This isn’t an American station.

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Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space history

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Dwight took part in an Air Force training program that was meant to prepare participants for astronaut duty — but he was passed over. Today’s mission, known as NS-25, was the 25th flight of the suborbital New Shepard program. In addition to the suborbital New Shepard program, Kent, Wash.-based

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How to watch the countdown to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin suborbital space trip (and why)

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PT), with Bezos and the rest of the crew sitting back in their seats, looking through the picture windows in their capsule as a hydrogen-fueled rocket booster sends them skyward. The New Shepard rocket ship is scheduled to blast off from Launch Site One’s pad at 8 a.m. But Bezos prefers to take the long view. ”

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Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship aces uncrewed rehearsal for crewed flight to space

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If the program goes as hoped, Blue Origin could start flying people later this year. There’s even a defogging system for the capsule’s nearly floor-to-ceiling windows. About a minute after launch, the craft was programmed to rotate at the rate of one complete turn every two to three minutes.

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It’s a date! Comedian Pete Davidson will headline Blue Origin suborbital space trip next week

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SpaceKids participates in the Postcards to Space program led by the Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s educational foundation. The mission will mark the 20th flight for Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital space program, and the fourth crewed flight. Marc and Sharon Hagle are husband and wife.

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‘Mercury 13’ woman aviator Wally Funk will ride with Jeff Bezos on Blue Origin suborbital space trip

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She was already a professional aviator when she volunteered for the privately funded Women in Space research program in 1961 at the age of 21. The program, which had the support of NASA but was not officially sponsored by the government, ran 13 women through the medical and psychological tests that NASA used for its male astronauts.

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