Reykjavík, Iceland – Blue Origin sent six people in a space on a suborbital space flight on May 31, which, according to the director general of the company, is both a good business and a way to test the technology.
Blue Origin’s new Shepard vehicle has left the company’s launch site in western Texas at 9:39 am in the east. The capsule, after reaching a 105 -kilometer peak, landed 10 minutes later, a few minutes after the booster.
The NS-32 mission, on what has become a standard flight to the company, transported six people:
- Aysette (Amy) Medina Jorge, Texas teacher whose flight was sponsored by the Mexican health care company, similar Farmacias;
- Gretchen Green, doctor and entrepreneur;
- Jaime Alemán, a Panamanian lawyer who has already been ambassador of this country to the United States;
- Jesse Williams, a Canadian entrepreneur and adventurer;
- Mark Rocket, a New Zealand businessman who was a first investor in and, for a certain time, co-director of Rocket Lab; And
- Paul Jeris, a property developer.
It was 12th The New Shepard and vehicle crew flight has now transported 64 people, four of whom stole more than once. With this flight, Rocket became the first person in New Zealand to go to space and Alemán the first Panamanian.
It was the fourth new flight Shepard so far this year, three of whom transported people and the fourth A flight only at the payload which simulated the lunar gravity. The company has not disclosed the number of thefts that the company provides this year.
Speaking at the top of humans at the Moon and on Mars by exploring March 28 on May 28, Dave Limp, director general of Blue Origin, reiterated that the company remains attached to New Shepard even if it steals its new launch vehicle in Glenn and works on Blue Moon Lander and other capacities.
MOUS, Echoing the comments he made at the Conference of Commercial Spaces in Februarysaid New Shepard alone is as a service and also gives the company the opportunity to test technologies for other programs.
“First of all, it’s a good business,” he said. “There is an insatiable demand for human beings who have grown up thinking about space and who want to go to space, but it’s always very difficult to do now.” He did not disclose details on the quality of the company, and the company has traditionally been reluctant to disclose prices or related information.
Even if these missions were not a good commercial opportunity, he added: “We would always have New Shepard because it is such a good test bench.” He quoted as an example of a planeic flight of flight tests on New Shepard for use on New Glenn, as well as the Lidar test which is part of the landing system of the Lander Lanar Lander of the Blue Moon Moon 1 company, Take your first flight later this year.
