Blue Origin

Blue Origin

Subject: Science and Technology

Context: When Blue Origin launches people into space for the first time, founder Jeff Bezos will be on board. No test pilots or flight engineers for Tuesday’s debut flight from West Texas, just Bezos, his brother, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer and a teenage tourist.

Concept:

• Blue Origin has completed 15 test flights to space since 2015, carrying up experiments, and Mannequin Skywalker, the company’s passenger stand-in.
• The capsules also were recycled.
• Blue Origin is expected to open ticket sales soon after Bezos flies.
• New Shepard is meant to launch people on brief flights to the edge of space,
• The mega New Glenn will be capable of hauling cargo and eventually crew into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, possibly beginning late next year.

New Shephard

• It is a rocket system meant to take tourists to space successfully.
• The system is built by Blue Origin.
• New Shephard has been named after astronaut Alan Shephard, the first American to go to space.
• It offers flights to space over 100 km above the Earth and accommodation for payloads.
• The system is a fully reusable, vertical take-off and vertical landing space vehicle.

Scientific objectives of the mission:

• It is a rocket system that has been designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Karman line – the internationally recognized boundary of space.