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- It was a brief jaunt — rising 60-some miles into the sky above West Texas — in a spacecraft that was built by Mr. Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin.
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Blue Engine 1, or BE-1, was the first rocket engine developed by the company and was used in the company's Goddard development vehicle. PM2 [ edit ] Another early suborbital test vehicle, PM2, had two flight tests in 2011 in west Texas.
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- How to watch the Blue Origin space launch
- Blue Origin's flight plan
Nine days after being upstaged by Richard Branson, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is finally ready for his own flight into history, blasting off Tuesday morning aboard a fully automated spacecraft he believes will usher in a new era of commercial passenger service.
Reaching a slightly higher altitude than Branson's winged spaceplane, Bezos' New Shepard capsule is equipped with the largest windows ever built into a spacecraft, offering its briefly weightless passengers truly out-of-this-world views of planet Earth more than 62 miles below.
More important for the safety-conscious, perhaps, the capsule features a flight-tested abort system designed to quickly propel the ship and its passengers away from a malfunctioning booster.
Like Branson before him, Bezos' presence aboard his New Shepard spacecraft is a public show of confidence in its readiness, after 15 successful but unpiloted test flights, to begin sub-orbital flights for wealthy space tourists and researchers flying at government or corporate expense.
"I'm excited," Bezos said Monday in an interview with Gayle King on "CBS This Morning." "People keep asking if I'm nervous. I'm not really nervous, I'm excited. I'm curious. I want to know what we're going to learn."
"You're not nervous?" King asked. "How are you not nervous?"
•What: Jeff Bezos and three crewmates launch aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft
•Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
•Time: Liftoff currently targeted for 9 a.m. EDT
•Location: Blue Origin's Launch Site One, in the desert near Van Horn, Texas
•On TV: Watch CBS News Special Report coverage on your local CBS station — coverage begins at 8:53 a.m. EDT
•Online stream: Watch live on CBSN on your mobile or streaming device — coverage begins at 8:15 a.m. EDT
Innovation takes many forms, and Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin chose very different routes to space.
Unlike Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spaceplane, which is launched from a carrier jet and glides to a runway landing after a brief visit to the lower edge of space, Blue Origin's New Shepard is a much more traditional rocket and capsule.
In a little more than two minutes, the single-stage booster will propel the capsule and its crew straight up to an altitude of about 32 miles and a velocity of some 2,200 mph before main engine shutdown.
Less than 30 seconds later, at an altitude of about 45 miles, the crew capsule will be released to fly on its own.
While the reusable booster heads back to landing on a nearby pad, the crew capsule will continue upward on an unpowered, ballistic trajectory, reaching a maximum altitude of just above 62 miles three-and-a-half minutes after takeoff.
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), an international body based in Switzerland that certifies aerospace records, considers an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles — a level known as the Kármán Line — as the dividing line between the discernible atmosphere and space.
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Jul 20, 2021 · Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday. It was a brief jaunt — rising 60-some miles into the sky above West Texas — in a spacecraft that was built by Mr. Bezos’...
Jul 21, 2021 · The passengers of the Blue Origin enter the capsule near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. The rocket is scheduled to launch later this morning will carry passengers Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, brother Mark Bezos, Oliver Daemen and Wally Funk.
Jul 20, 2021 · Jeff Bezos, the richest human in the world, went to space on Tuesday. It was a brief jaunt — rising 60-some miles into the sky above West Texas — in a spacecraft that was built by Mr. Bezos’...
Jul 20, 2021 · The autonomous New Shepard, which consists of a rocket topped by a capsule, lifted off from Blue Origin's Launch Site One near the West Texas town of Van Horn today at 9:11 a.m. EDT (1311 GMT;...
Jul 20, 2021 · The company is designing a lunar lander and a larger rocket, called New Glenn, that could carry humans into Earth orbit and beyond—into the realms of space stations and satellites, of moonwalks ...
