Blue Origin’s six pilots will have to wait another two days to reach the final.
Blue Teacher delayed the fourth voyage of his Shepard Hou suborbital winds from Tuesday (March 29) to Friday (March 31), showing high winds forecasted at the company’s West Texas broadcasting site in the coming days.
“#NewShepard Mission Operations has successfully completed the Flight Readiness Review and time is the only reason left to start,” Blue Origin delegates said. said via Twitter on Monday evening (March 28).
The release begins Friday at 9:30 am EDT (1330 GMT; 8:30 am local time in Texas). You can watch it live on Space.com, courtesy of Blue Origin, or directly through the companystarting at 8:20 am EDT (1220 GMT).
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The New Shepard has a rocket and a capsule, both of which can be reused. The car has been launched 19 times to date, explaining the name of the upcoming missionary: NS-20. Most of those early planes did not fly; The NS-20 was only the fourth cruise ship for Blue Origin.
The NS -20 will take on five customers – businessman Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle and Marc Hagle, principal and businessman Jim Kitchen, and George Nield, president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC. The sixth driver was Blue Origin employee Gary Lai, chief designer of the New Shepard system.
Lai’s seat was originally expected to be filled by “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, but the actor did not. set out after the initial delay in the start date, from March 23 to March 29.
Blue Origin has a history of exposing celebrities like Davidson on his suborbital space missions. For example, the company’s first aircraft carrier, released in July 2021, was listed among its Blue Origin co -founder and CEO. Jeff Bezos and aviation pioneer Wally Funk. “Star Trek” producer William Shatner flew the second mission, in October 2021, and NFL Hall of Famer and “Good Morning America” co-host Michael Strahan climbed to the third. cruise, in December 2021.
Mike Wall is the author of “Outside“(Grand Central Publishing, 2018; edited by Karl Tate), a book about exploring alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom or at Facebook.
