Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard flies toward space carrying Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of astronaut Alan Shepard, and four other civilians on December 11, 2021 near Van Horn, Texas. The six are riding aboard mission NS-19, the third human spaceflight for the company which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.Blue Origin plans to launch its first private space tourist mission in nearly two years on Sunday , and you can watch it live online.
The launch window for NS-25 opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT . Space.com will carry Blue Origin's webcast on this page and on our home page; the stream is scheduled to begin 40 minutes before the launch window opens. Blue Origin will launch Ed Dwight, the 1st-ever Black astronaut candidate, to space on next New Shepard rocket flightNew Shepard flights were suspended as engineers examined and addressed the anomaly, which was a"thermo-structural failure" of the nozzle on the rocket's single BE-3PM engine. Suborbital flights resumedNew Shepard is reusable, with the rocket touching down vertically shortly after liftoff, and the capsule coming down under parachutes roughly 11 minutes after liftoff.
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