Blue Origin is targeted for its 10th Space Tourism Mission next Tuesday (February 25), which will send six people to the final frontier.
If all go according to the plan, the suborobital new Shepard vehicle of Blue Origin will be away from the company’s West Texas site on EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 AM Local Texas time) on Tuesday at 11:30 pm.
You will be able to see the action live starting 35 minutes before the launch.
The upcoming mission is called the NS-30, as it will be the 30th overall launch of the New Shepard, which will be a re-purpose rocket-contact combo. Most of the missions of the vehicle – from the launch to the capsule touchdown for 10 to 12 minutes – research flights have been opened.
Blue Origin, which was founded in September 2000 by Jeff Bezos of Amazon, has announced the identity of five of the six people on NS -30. They are Venture Capitalist Lane Base (who are flying on New Shepard for the second time), Spanish TV host Jessuz Kaleja, entrepreneur and physicist Ellen Chia Hyde, reproductive endocrinologist Richard Scott and Hedge Fund Partner Tushar Shah. You can learn more about them in our crew.
We still do not know who is the sixth crew.
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Blue Origin announced the target launch date of NS -30 today (February 25), in an update, which also revealed the mission patch. That update explained the importance of some symbols of the patch. In the words of Blue Origin:
- The mountain represents the Spanish climber and courageous Jesus Kaleja, which has climbed seven summit in the world.
- Airplane and Badal Jesuz Kaleja, Ellen Hyde, Dr. Richards represent Scott and Tushar Shah, all of which are pilots.
- Pigeon Jesuz with Olive Branch represents peace for everyone for the hope of Kaleja and lane base.
- The southern cross represents the heritage of Australian and Singapore of Ellen Hyde.
- The Roman III along the lower edge represents the second flight of II lane.
- The winding road driver’s astronauts on the mountain leading to the crew’s capsules represents the road for the space of each of the astronauts.
