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William Shatner became the oldest person ever to reach the edge of space on Wednesday, when the 90-year-old “Star Trek” star blasted off on Blue Origin’s second human flight.
Blue Origin NS-18 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin that launched on 13 October 2021. [1] The mission was the eighteenth flight of the company's New Shepard integrated launch vehicle and spacecraft. It was the second crewed New Shepard launch. The flight, carrying four people including actor William Shatner, launched ...
Show comments. (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched a six-person crew - including the first U.S. Black astronaut candidate from the 1960s - from West Texas to the edge of ...
On October 31, 2022, a Twitter post by the official Blue Origin account announced that the first two BE-4 engines had been delivered to ULA and were being integrated on a Vulcan rocket. In a later tweet, ULA CEO Tory Bruno said that one of the engines had already been installed on the booster, and that the other would be joining it momentarily ...
Joey Roulette. June 13, 2024 at 6:00 PM. By Joey Roulette. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense picked Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing-Lockheed joint venture ...
The BE-4 (Blue Engine 4) [5] is an oxygen-rich [6] liquefied-methane-fueled staged-combustion rocket engine produced by Blue Origin. The BE-4 was developed with private and public funding. [ 7 ] The engine has been designed to produce 2.4 meganewtons (550,000 lbf ) of thrust at sea level.
The New Shepard rocket and capsule lifted off at 9:36 a.m. CT (10:36 a.m. ET) from the Jeff Bezos-founded company’s facilities on a private ranch in West Texas.
Audrey Powers. Audrey Powers is the vice president of mission and flight operations of American aerospace and spaceflight company Blue Origin. [1] On October 13, 2021, Powers accompanied William Shatner along with two other space tourists on a New Shepard rocket as part of the Blue Origin NS-18 mission into space. [2]