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Blue Origin NS-25 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, which was launched on May 19, 2024, using the New Shepard rocket.[1][2]
NS-25 was the first New Shepard flight to carry humans since NS-22 in August 2022. The New Shepard fleet was grounded following a September 2022 engine failure on a cargo mission. The vehicle resumed flight in December 2023.[3]
NS-25 carried six passengers to a maximum altitude of Template:Cvt.[4] At T+03:12, the passengers experienced weightlessness, and at T+03:31, the capsule passed the Kármán line.[5] The booster landed seven minutes after launch, while the capsule, deploying only two of its three parachutes, touched down ten minutes after liftoff. Launch commentators assured that the capsule is designed to land safely with only two parachutes.[6][7]
Passengers
Ed Dwight is often cited as the first African-American astronaut candidate. He made it to the second round of a 1961 Air Force program from which NASA selected astronauts, but was not selected. When he eventually flew as a space tourist on the Blue Origin suborbital flight at age Template:Ayd, he became the oldest person to reach space.[8][9]
References
- ↑ New Shepard's 25th Mission Includes America's First Black Astronaut Candidate. Blue Origin. Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ↑ Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flight. Space.com(2024-04-04). Retrieved 2024-04-04.
- ↑ Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard flights, Foust, Jeff. SpaceNews(2024-04-05). Retrieved 2024-04-08.
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- ↑ Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-25 Webcast. YouTube(2024-05-19). Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ↑ Blue Origin launches 1st crewed spaceflight since August 2022 (video), Wall, Mike. Space.com(2024-05-19). Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ↑ All the news about Blue Origin's first crewed flight since 2022, Davis, Wes. The Verge(2024-05-19). Retrieved 2024-05-19.
- ↑ We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program, Chapter 5, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2015, pp. 86-104
- ↑ Blue Origin launches six tourists to the edge of space after nearly two-year hiatus, Wattles, Jackie. CNN(2024-05-19). Retrieved 2024-05-19.
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