The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), an international body based in Switzerland that certifies aerospace records, considers an altitude of 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, as the dividing line between the discernible atmosphere and space. While the reusable booster heads back to landing on a nearby pad, the crew capsule continues upward on an unpowered, ballistic trajectory, reaching a maximum altitude of just above 65 miles three-and-a-half minutes after takeoff. In a little more than two minutes, the single-stage booster propels 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.Ī few seconds later, at an altitude of about 45 miles, the crew capsule is released to fly on its own. Unlike Virgin'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. 11, 2021, March 31 this year and most recently on June 4. Three more crewed New Shepard flights followed on Dec. Then, on October 13, 2021, William Shatner and three crewmates were launched on the company's 18th flight overall and the second carrying passengers. Virgin Galactic has not yet announced a date for its next flight, but Blue Origin followed up the Bezos flight by launching a suite of NASA experiments on an unpiloted mission the next month. Branson flew as a passenger on the company's fourth flight in July 2021, its most recent, joining two pilots and three other Virgin Galactic employees.īezos, his brother Mark, aviation pioneer Wally Funk and Danish teenager Oliver Daeman took off on Blue Origin's first piloted sub-orbital flight on July 20, 2021, nine days after Branson's launch.
The New Shepard booster, completing its eighth flight, flies itself back to a safe touchdown on a landing pad at the launch site.īranson won the commercial sub-orbital space race in 2018 when his company launched its first piloted test flight above 50 miles, the boundary of space recognized by NASA and the FAA. The NS-22 mission marked the 12th piloted commercial, non-government sub-orbital spaceflight and the sixth for Blue Origin, which is the early leader in a high-stakes competition between Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, the billionaire owner of Virgin Galactic.
"Some of that is transaction fees, but the figure suggests that a seat on New Shepard costs $1.25 million." "Thanks to the transparency of the blockchain, we know it cost MoonDAO $2,575,000," Quartz reported. The second seat has not yet been assigned. But Quartz reported MoonDAO, a "decentralized autonomous organization" built on the ethereum blockchain, paid $2,575,000 for two New Shepard seats, including Cotton's. And what's better than to be able to say you went to space when your buddies can't?"īlue Origin does not discuss how much it charges for a flight aboard the New Shepard. I have always been a bit of a braggart-slash-showoff. "And with stupid money, you can do stupid things. "With the sale of the company came lots of stupid money," Young told the Florida Today newspaper. The New Shepard Flight 22 crew (left to right): Sara Sabry, the first Egyptian to reach space, restauranteur Steve Young, "Dude Perfect" co-founder Coby Cotton, mountaineer Vanessa O'Brien, engineer Clint Kelly III and Mario Ferreira, the first native of Portugal to make a space flight. This is just the beginning."Īlso on board: Coby Cotton, one of five co-founders of " Dude Perfect," one of the internet's most heavily subscribed sports channels Mario Ferreira, a Portuguese investor mountain climber Vanessa O'Brien Clint Kelly III, an engineer with expertise in autonomous driving systems and Steve Young, former CEO of a large telecommunications company and now a restaurant developer in Melbourne, Florida. My ancestors have always dreamt big and achieved the impossible, and I hope to bring that back. "I am incredibly excited that Space For Humanity has offered me this opportunity and I am honored to be representing Egypt in space for the first time.
"When we dare to dream big, we achieve things deemed impossible, we break boundaries, write history and set new challenges for the future," she told Space for Humanity, the organization sponsoring her flight.
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