The spaceship will then make a suborbital journey with approximately six minutes of weightlessness, with the entire flight lasting approximately 1.5 hours.īezos revealed in April 2017 that he finances Blue Origin with around $1 billion (£720 million) of Amazon stock each year. Passengers become 'astronauts' when they reach the Karman line, the boundary of Earth's atmosphere. SpaceShipTwo separates from its carrier craft, White Knight II, once it has passed the 50-mile mark. It climbs to 50,000ft before the rocket engine ignites. The space ship is 60ft long with a 90inch diameter cabin allowing maximum room for the astronauts to float in zero gravity.
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Each passenger gets the same seating position with two large windows - one to the side and one overhead. SpaceShipTwo can carry six passengers and two pilots. Richard Branson with the Virgin Galactic craft On February 6 2018, SpaceX sent rocket towards the orbit of Mars, 140 million miles away, with Musk's own red Tesla roadster attached. SpaceX appears to be leading the way in the broader billionaire space race with numerous launches carrying NASA equipment to the ISS and partnerships to send tourists to space by 2021. His flight was on a Dragon capsule and SpaceX rocket built by space-obsessed billionaire, Elon Musk and took off for the three day orbital trip on September 16 - going higher than the International Space Station. SpaceX became the first of the 'space tourism' operators to send a fully civilian crew into orbit, with the Inspiration4 mission funded by billionaire Jared Isaacman. The British billionaire became Virgin Galactic Astronaut 001 when he made it to space on a suborbital flight nine days before Bezos - on July 11 in a test flight.īezos travelled to space on July 20 with his younger brother Mark, Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old physics student whose dad purchased his ticket, and pioneering female astronaut Wally Funk, 82.Īlthough SpaceX and Tesla founder Musk has said he wants to go into space, and even 'die on Mars', he has not said when he might blast into orbit - but has purchased a ticket with Virgin Galactic for a suborbital flight. Jeff Bezos in front of Blue Origin's space capsuleĭubbed the 'NewSpace' set, Jeff Bezos, Sir Richard Branson and Elon Musk all say they were inspired by the first moon landing in 1969, when the US beat the Soviet Union in the space race, and there is no doubt how much it would mean to each of them to win the 'new space race'.Īmazon founder Bezos had looked set to be the first of the three to fly to space, having announced plans to launch aboard his space company Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft on July 20, but Branson beat him to the punch. Mission N-13 puts Blue Origin in the lead of recycling rockets, as the Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has only reused Falcon 9 six times. There were also tens of thousands of postcards from students around the world from Blue Origin's nonprofit, Club for the Future.īlue Origin's Caitlin Dietrich said as the booster returned to Earth:'Touch DOWN, New Shepard here we go.'
#Blue origin rocket landing series#
New Shepard launched at 9:35am ET, carrying 12 commercial payloads that it took into orbit and will bring back to Earth, and returned to for a successful landing about 10 minutes following liftoff.Īboard the craft was a lunar lending sensor demonstration for its partnership with NASA that road on the exterior of the rocket instead of inside the capsule to conduct a series of tests for human's return to the moon. This is the craft's seventh consecutive flight, which took off from the firm's West Texas facility. Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has made a new recycling rocket record following the successfully launch and landing of its resuseable New Shepard.
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