LAUNCH TIME | June 30, 2022- 15:30:00 - 18:30:00 |
LAUNCH PROVIDER | Blue Origin |
COSTUMER | Blue Origin |
ROCKET | New Shepard |
LAUNCH SITE | West Texas Suborbital Launch Site, Texas |
DESTINATION | Suborbital trajectory |
LANDING SITE | Blue Origin landing pad |
WEATHER | - |
Blue Origin will launch the 5th mission with humans aboard their New Shepard suborbital rocket.
THE CREW
Evan Dick
Evan is an engineer, investor and managing member of Dick Holdings, LLC., And flew aboard the NS-19 on December 11, 2021. Evan was previously senior vice president for DE Shaw and chief executive officer of Highbridge Capital Management. Evan is an ATP classified pilot and volunteer for Starfighters Aerospace.
Katya Echazarreta
Katya was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Her mission is to provide representation to women and minorities interested in STEM fields. She is the co-host of the YouTube series "Netflix IRL" and "Electric Kat" on the CBS show "Mission Unstoppable". Katya is currently pursuing a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University and received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from UCLA in 2019. After graduation, she spent nearly four years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on five NASA missions, including the Perseverance rover and Europa Clipper.
Hamish Harding
Hamish is president of Action Aviation, a business jet brokerage firm he founded in 2004, and also a business jet pilot. In 2019, he and Terry Virts broke the round-the-world record with a Gulfstream G650ER for any aircraft flying over the north and south poles. In addition to holding several aviation world records, Hamish has twice traveled to the South Pole and in 2021 dived the Challenger Deep with Victor Vescovo to a depth of 36,000 feet in a two-person submarine.
Victor Correa Hespanha
Victor is a 28-year-old civil manufacturing engineer from Minas Gerais. As a child he dreamed of becoming an astronaut and now, having bought his first NFT, he is honored to be the second Brazilian to fly into space and the first cryptonaut in the world.
Victor's post is sponsored by the Crypto Space Agency (CSA, not the Canadian Space Agency), whose mission is to combine space industry technology with the innovation and financial power of cryptocurrency markets to accelerate the future of cryptocurrency. humanity out of this world.
Jaison Robinson
Jaison founded JJM Investments, a commercial real estate company, and co-founded Dream Variations Ventures (DVV) with his wife. He is an avid diver and paratrooper, broke the sound barrier on a Mig-29 fighter, spent a week hiking in Antarctica and climbed to the world's highest waterfall in Venezuela. Jaison holds a BA from Stanford, with studies at Oxford, and a JD from the University of Chicago. He is also an Eagle Scout and has played water polo at Stanford and on the United States national team.
Victor Vescovo
Victor is a co-founder of the private equity investment firm Insight Equity. He has completed the "Grand Slam of the explorer", which includes the summit of the seven peaks of the world and skiing at the north and south poles. In 2020, he became the first person to repeatedly dive to the deepest point in the ocean, Challenger Deep. He is the first person to visit the deepest point of the world's five oceans and perform the deepest wreck dive in history. Victor is a commercially classified multi-engine jet and helicopter pilot as well as a certified submarine test pilot. He graduated from Stanford, MIT and Harvard Business School and served for 20 years in the US Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer, retiring as commander (O-5).
THE NEW SHEPARD SPACECRAFT
The New Shepard Crew Capsule has the capacity to carry up to six people in a large pressurized interior of 13 cubic cubic meters. The main objective of Blue Origin is to open to the general public the experience of microgravity and the vision of the curvature of the Earth. Each large window can pass 92% of visible light despite its structural ability to hold pressure making the experience much clearer.
The public had a chance to see unique views of the people inside the capsule during the first human flight of the New Shepard NS-16. This is due to the power of 12 indoor cameras with HDR capabilities so exceptional that both the interior and exterior of the capsule can be adequately exposed.
For safety, the capsule has an integrated solid fuel interruption motor known as the Crew Capsule Escape Solid Rocket Motor manufactured by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
THE NEW SHEPARD ROCKET
Named in honor of the first American launched into a suborbital trajectory, Alan Shepard, this rocket is designed for suborbital flights. Four New Shepard rockets have been built so far: NS1, NS2, NS3 and NS4. NS1 made its maiden flight in 2015.
The New Shepard booster is powered by a single BE-3PM liquid fuel engine with the ability to produce 489 kN of thrust. The BE-3 is powered by liquid hydrogen (LH 2) and liquid oxygen (LOx) and was developed and tested by Blue Origin in the 2000s.
NS-21 will be the seventh flight of the NS4 rocket. NS4 has some improved accessibility panels for easier cleaning and hardware checkout. NS4 has already made five flights, in which it successfully landed together with the capsule. These tests gave Blue Origin and the FAA the confidence to fly humans on this booster.