Updates Blue Origin New Shepard News and Updates

[GLS]

Capsule touchdown!
It seems everything worked!

 

[GLS]

Manned flight Sunday!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790412952325030369

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790517332181414187

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

A lucky man. Can't wait to see his reaction and thoughts afterwards...

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791500783176786322

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791561236481552529

 

[GLS]

Completely missed it

https://twitter.com/x/status/1792221180046291418

https://twitter.com/x/status/1792309251727118539

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

I missed it too. It is probably stored in the low priority compartment in my brain due to being a sub-orbital tourist flight only

 

[Boxx]

quiet brutal touchdown, IMHO. Total flight = 10min, including a 2- or 3-min weightless flight maximum............
the landing of the booster is impressive.

 

[GLS]

quiet brutal touchdown, IMHO.

Like the Soyuz, it has retrorockets that fire just before touchdown to slowdown to a comfortable velocity.

 

[Boxx]

Hence, the dust, okay. 1MPH = 1.6km/h = 45cm/s

 

[GLS]

No date yet...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1816074263574540701

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1827007140352975023

https://twitter.com/x/status/1828497131373498648

 

[GLS]

Live stream for later today:

 

[GLS]

T-5 Minutes!

 

[GLS]

T-90 seconds!

 

[GLS]

T0, liftoff!!!

 

[GLS]

MECO and CC separation!!!
The velocity seemed to stop climbing a bit before MECO...

 

[GLS]

The velocity seemed to stop climbing a bit before MECO...

Apogee seems nominal: 342314ft

 

[GLS]

Booster touchdown!

 

[GLS]

CC touchdown!!!!

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Interesting that they call the people onboard "astronauts". According to NASA and the IAF, only a person that orbits Earth is an astronaut. But I guess it's one of those things one can argue about endlessly. But they are for sure spacemen though, having crossed the Kármán line for a short period of time.