Tag: suborbital spaceflight
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NASA gives a lift to 57 high-flying student experiments, including one from the Seattle area
NASA launches a Raven Aerostar high-altitude balloon. (NASA Photo / Bill Rodman) NASA has chosen 57 winning teams — including a team from Interlake High School in Bellevue, Wash.— to receive funding to build and fly experiments focusing on subjects ranging from lunar dust mitigation to inkjet printing in zero gravity. Interlake’s team will focus…
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Crypto ambassador says he won Blue Origin’s $28M auction and is buying five more tickets to space
A digital rendering shows crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun in a spacesuit. (Justin Sun via Twitter) The winner of June’s $28 million auction for a seat on Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship revealed himself today — and is buying tickets for five more people to fly with him a year from now. It would be hard to…
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Marking another first, Blue Origin sends six spacefliers on a single suborbital trip
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifts off from West Texas. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture guided another suborbital space trip into the record books today — a trip that also marked a giant leap toward making space tourism routine. When Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship lifted off from…
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Blue Origin delays its next suborbital space trip because of worries about Texas winds
Spacefliers-to-be Laura Shepard Churchley, Lane Bess and Cameron Bess listen in on a training session at Blue Origin’s Launch Site One. (Blue Origin Photo) Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter will have to wait a little longer to take a ride on the suborbital spaceship that’s named after her father. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture…
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Jeff Bezos says he’s spending more on his Earth Fund than on Blue Origin space shots
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, talks about the link between space and Earth’s welfare with moderator Adi Ignatius at a forum at Washington National Cathedral. (Space SPAN via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has been getting a lot of press lately, but the Amazon founder and chairman says he’s…
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‘The most profound experience’: Blue Origin sends Star Trek’s William Shatner to the final frontier
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship fires up its engine. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Reality caught up with science fiction today when Star Trek actor William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain James T. Kirk, briefly crossed into outer space aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. In the process, the 90-year-old Shatner took the title of oldest…
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How to watch William Shatner beam up to suborbital space on Blue Origin’s rocket
Star Trek captain William Shatner gets tips from Jeff Bezos during a rehearsal for a suborbital space trip in Blue Origin’s New Shepard crew capsule. (Blue Origin via Instagram) More than a half-century after William Shatner first played a starship captain roaming the galaxy in “Star Trek,” he’s getting a real-life ride to the edge…
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William Shatner’s space trek is turning up a spotlight on Blue Origin’s highs and lows
Future suborbital spacefliers Audrey Powers, William Shatner, Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries pose in front of Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship. (Blue Origin Photo via Instagram) Star Trek captain William Shatner’s scheduled suborbital space trip is bringing a renewed flood of attention to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — but like a movie…
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Weather forces a day’s delay in William Shatner’s Blue Origin suborbital space trip
William Shatner stands with crewmates Chris Boshuizen (left), Audrey Powers and Glen de Vries, all clad in their flight suits for a Blue Origin suborbital space trip. (Blue Origin Photo) The Starship Enterprise never had to delay its mission to seek out new life and new civilizations due to bad weather, but that’s precisely what…
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Blue Origin confirms it’ll give Star Trek captain William Shatner a suborbital ride
Blue Origin’s Sarah Knights gives William Shatner a tour of the West Texas launch tower. (Blue Origin Photo) It’s official: Star Trek actor William Shatner is due to fly on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship next week, becoming the oldest person to go into space at the age of 90. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’…