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Blue Origin Completes 10th Human Spaceflight on New Shepard with Six Passengers
Blue Origin successfully completed its 10th human spaceflight, launching six passengers aboard the New Shepard rocket from its West Texas facility. The mission, designated NS-30, lasted about 10-12 minutes, giving passengers a few moments of weightlessness. The booster and capsule safely landed, with all parachutes deploying as expected. This fligh...
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Blue Origin NS-30 Crew Announced: Everything You Need to Know
Blue Origin has revealed five of the six crew members for its upcoming NS-30 space tourism mission. The confirmed crew includes Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Elaine Chia Hyde, Richard Scott, and Tushar Shah. One seat remains unfilled, with the final crew member yet to be disclosed. The flight, launching from West Texas, will provide a brief suborbital...
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 Conducts First Lunar Gravity Simulation
Blue Origin successfully launched its NS-29 mission, marking the first lunar gravity simulation on its New Shepard vehicle. The capsule rotated mid-flight to replicate Moon gravity for research payloads, including NASA-supported experiments on lunar dust behaviour and fire safety. Over half of the 30 payloads focused on Moon-related technologies. T...
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 Mission to Test Lunar Gravity Simulation
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 mission, scheduled for Jan. 28, 2025, will simulate lunar gravity during its suborbital flight. The uncrewed mission, launching from West Texas, carries 30 experiments, with 17 contributed by NASA. These experiments aim to advance lunar exploration technologies, including studying moon dust behaviour, fire dynamics...
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Blue Origin’s NS-28 Carries the 100th Woman in Space, Makes Safe Landing
Blue Origin’s NS-28 mission, which launched on 22 November 2024, included six passengers, including Emily Calandrelli, who became the 100th woman to reach space. The ten-minute suborbital journey, reaching an altitude of 106 kilometres, also carried Marc and Sharon Hagle, Austin Litteral, J.D. Russell, and Hank Wolfond.
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Blue Origin Targets November 22 for Next Space Tourism Flight NS-28
Blue Origin is set to launch its ninth crewed mission, NS-28, on 22 November from its West Texas facility. The mission will take six passengers to suborbital space, including Emily Calandrelli, an MIT-educated engineer and science communicator, along with seasoned space tourists Marc and Sharon Hagle. The 10–12-minute flight will offer a brief pe...
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Chinese Company Deep Blue Aerospace Aims to Start Space Tourism by 2027
Deep Blue Aerospace, based in Jiangsu, China, has announced its intention to enter the space tourism market, planning to launch paying customers into suborbital space by 2027. Tickets will cost approximately $210,000, promising a comprehensive journey beyond a brief weightlessness experience. The reusable rocket-capsule system is similar to Blue Or...
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Blue Origin Delays New Shepard NS-27 Mission Following GPS Malfunction
Blue Origin has postponed the launch of its second human-rated New Shepard mission, NS-27, due to a GPS malfunction. Initially set for 13th October, the mission aims to send a newly developed rocket-capsule combination into suborbital space. This delay raises concerns about the reliability of the New Shepard programme, which has previously complete...
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From New York To London In 60 Minutes: Hypersonic Jet Set For Test Flight In 2025
Developed by startup engineering company Venus Aerospace, this futuristic plane will reach astonishing speeds of up to Mach 6 (3,600mph/5,795km/h).
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NASA Researcher to Study Gravity’s Impact on Plants Aboard Blue Origin's Suborbital Rocket
In a historic first, a NASA-funded researcher will fly aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket to study how gravitational changes impact plant biology. Rob Ferl from the University of Florida will lead the experiment, activating tubes pre-loaded with plants and preservatives during the flight to capture how plants respond to different ...
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Suborbital Flights Might Soon Take You To Any Point On Earth Within 2 Hours: Study
NASAs experimental supersonic aircraft, the X-59 'Son of Concorde' is all set for its first test flight.
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Blue Origin Engineer to Replace SNL Star Pete Davidson on Space Flight
Blue Origin engineer Gary Lai will replace Saturday Night Live comic Pete Davidson in the space tourism company's latest flight.
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Daughter Of 1st US Astronaut Alan Shepard Soars To Space In Blue Origin
The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.
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'Star Trek' Actor, 90, Could Become Oldest Person In Space After Blue Origin Trip
Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who embodied the promise of space travel on the "Star Trek" TV series and films - among the four
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Jeff Bezos Successfully Completes Suborbital Travel Aboard New Shepard, Does Back Flips in Zero Gravity
Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, soared above the Texas desert aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle and returned safely to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps usher in a new era of space tourism.
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Blue Origin Completes 10th Human Spaceflight on New Shepard with Six Passengers
Blue Origin successfully completed its 10th human spaceflight, launching six passengers aboard the New Shepard rocket from its West Texas facility. The mission, designated NS-30, lasted about 10-12 minutes, giving passengers a few moments of weightlessness. The booster and capsule safely landed, with all parachutes deploying as expected. This fligh...
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Blue Origin NS-30 Crew Announced: Everything You Need to Know
Blue Origin has revealed five of the six crew members for its upcoming NS-30 space tourism mission. The confirmed crew includes Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Elaine Chia Hyde, Richard Scott, and Tushar Shah. One seat remains unfilled, with the final crew member yet to be disclosed. The flight, launching from West Texas, will provide a brief suborbital...
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 Conducts First Lunar Gravity Simulation
Blue Origin successfully launched its NS-29 mission, marking the first lunar gravity simulation on its New Shepard vehicle. The capsule rotated mid-flight to replicate Moon gravity for research payloads, including NASA-supported experiments on lunar dust behaviour and fire safety. Over half of the 30 payloads focused on Moon-related technologies. T...
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Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 Mission to Test Lunar Gravity Simulation
Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-29 mission, scheduled for Jan. 28, 2025, will simulate lunar gravity during its suborbital flight. The uncrewed mission, launching from West Texas, carries 30 experiments, with 17 contributed by NASA. These experiments aim to advance lunar exploration technologies, including studying moon dust behaviour, fire dynamics...
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Blue Origin’s NS-28 Carries the 100th Woman in Space, Makes Safe Landing
Blue Origin’s NS-28 mission, which launched on 22 November 2024, included six passengers, including Emily Calandrelli, who became the 100th woman to reach space. The ten-minute suborbital journey, reaching an altitude of 106 kilometres, also carried Marc and Sharon Hagle, Austin Litteral, J.D. Russell, and Hank Wolfond.
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Blue Origin Targets November 22 for Next Space Tourism Flight NS-28
Blue Origin is set to launch its ninth crewed mission, NS-28, on 22 November from its West Texas facility. The mission will take six passengers to suborbital space, including Emily Calandrelli, an MIT-educated engineer and science communicator, along with seasoned space tourists Marc and Sharon Hagle. The 10–12-minute flight will offer a brief pe...
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Chinese Company Deep Blue Aerospace Aims to Start Space Tourism by 2027
Deep Blue Aerospace, based in Jiangsu, China, has announced its intention to enter the space tourism market, planning to launch paying customers into suborbital space by 2027. Tickets will cost approximately $210,000, promising a comprehensive journey beyond a brief weightlessness experience. The reusable rocket-capsule system is similar to Blue Or...
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Blue Origin Delays New Shepard NS-27 Mission Following GPS Malfunction
Blue Origin has postponed the launch of its second human-rated New Shepard mission, NS-27, due to a GPS malfunction. Initially set for 13th October, the mission aims to send a newly developed rocket-capsule combination into suborbital space. This delay raises concerns about the reliability of the New Shepard programme, which has previously complete...
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From New York To London In 60 Minutes: Hypersonic Jet Set For Test Flight In 2025
Developed by startup engineering company Venus Aerospace, this futuristic plane will reach astonishing speeds of up to Mach 6 (3,600mph/5,795km/h).
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NASA Researcher to Study Gravity’s Impact on Plants Aboard Blue Origin's Suborbital Rocket
In a historic first, a NASA-funded researcher will fly aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket to study how gravitational changes impact plant biology. Rob Ferl from the University of Florida will lead the experiment, activating tubes pre-loaded with plants and preservatives during the flight to capture how plants respond to different ...
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Suborbital Flights Might Soon Take You To Any Point On Earth Within 2 Hours: Study
NASAs experimental supersonic aircraft, the X-59 'Son of Concorde' is all set for its first test flight.
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Blue Origin Engineer to Replace SNL Star Pete Davidson on Space Flight
Blue Origin engineer Gary Lai will replace Saturday Night Live comic Pete Davidson in the space tourism company's latest flight.
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Daughter Of 1st US Astronaut Alan Shepard Soars To Space In Blue Origin
The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father's famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.
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'Star Trek' Actor, 90, Could Become Oldest Person In Space After Blue Origin Trip
Billionaire U.S. businessman Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin is set for its second suborbital tourism flight on Wednesday, with actor William Shatner - who embodied the promise of space travel on the "Star Trek" TV series and films - among the four
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Jeff Bezos Successfully Completes Suborbital Travel Aboard New Shepard, Does Back Flips in Zero Gravity
Jeff Bezos, the world's richest person, soared above the Texas desert aboard his company Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle and returned safely to Earth, a historic suborbital flight that helps usher in a new era of space tourism.
