A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launched the NS-25 mission from Texas.
Watch the crew enjoying zero-g and flight highlights.
According to Space.com, the Six people aboard were Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first-ever Black astronaut candidate; venture capitalist Mason Angel; Sylvain Chiron, the founder of French craft brewery Brasserie Mont Blanc; entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess; retired accountant Carol Schaller; and pilot and aviator Gopi Thotakura.
Credit: Blue Origin
Watch the crew enjoying zero-g and flight highlights.
According to Space.com, the Six people aboard were Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first-ever Black astronaut candidate; venture capitalist Mason Angel; Sylvain Chiron, the founder of French craft brewery Brasserie Mont Blanc; entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess; retired accountant Carol Schaller; and pilot and aviator Gopi Thotakura.
Credit: Blue Origin
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00:00All right, let's do this.
00:03Look at that!
00:05All right, over first!
00:07Over first!
00:09Woo!
00:11Oh my God!
00:13Oh my God!
00:15Look at this!
00:17Look at the Earth!
00:19Look at the Earth!
00:21Oh man!
00:23Oh my God!
00:25This is psych.
00:27This is psych.
00:29Okay, I got a few things to do.
00:33All right!
00:35First for you!
00:37Cam appears!
00:39Dude, look at the Earth!
00:41Just look outside!
00:43Oh my God!
00:45Where's face?
00:47Man is happy, buddy.
00:49India with pride.
00:51India to space.
00:53India to space!
00:55Woohoo!
00:57Hey there!
00:59Eight.
01:01Seven.
01:02Six.
01:03Five.
01:04Four.
01:05Command engine start.
01:06Two.
01:07One.
01:08Zero.
01:09Ignition.
01:10New Shepard has cleared the tower.
01:20The rocket and our astronauts are heading up to space.
01:22New Shepard has cleared the tower.
01:23New Shepard has cleared the tower.
01:25New Shepard has cleared the tower.
01:27The rocket and our astronauts are heading up to space.
01:32Now you can follow along on the bottom left of your screen, the altimeter on the left,
01:39excuse me, the altimeter on the right and the speedometer on the left.
01:4910,000 feet.
02:02All right, as we go through this flight, there are a couple of milestones here.
02:08The first one will be Max-Q.
02:11That's when the dynamic pressures are the highest on the vehicle.
02:16We go from 100% power, pull it back a little bit as we go through Max-Q,
02:21and then ramp her back up to 100%.
02:29Okay, maximum pressure.
02:32Max-Q should be in about 10 seconds.
02:38Max-Q has been confirmed.
02:55Again, thank you, everybody, for joining us for New Shepard's 25th mission to space.
03:00So far in nominal flight, we have gone through Max-Q.
03:04100,000 feet.
03:06And the vehicle will continue to climb under full power of the BE-3 engine.
03:12The next milestone will be main engine cutoff.
03:18You will know when that happens when you see the glow of the engine at the base of the rocket go dim.
03:24There we go.
03:36Main engine cutoff confirmed.
03:38Passing 200,000 feet.
03:42Now, with the main engine cutoff, with the BE-3, excuse me, the BE-3 engine turned off, the vehicle continues to climb up towards its apogee,
03:56but as you will see on the left side, the speedometer will come down, and once that speedometer hits zero,
04:02that's when you know exactly that the vehicle has hit Apogee, its highest altitude in the flight of the vehicle.
04:14Now, I understand that separation of the capsule from the booster has been confirmed.
04:20All right, let's do this.
04:22Look at that!
04:24All right, all over first!
04:26All over first!
04:28Woo!
04:30Oh my god!
04:32Oh my god!
04:34Oh my god!
04:36Look at the Earth!
04:38Look at the Earth!
04:40Oh man!
04:42Oh my god!
04:44This is like insane!
04:48Okay, I've got a few things to do.
04:52All right!
04:53Woo-hoo-hoo!
04:54First for you!
04:55Camel appears!
04:56Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
04:59Dude, look at the Earth!
05:01Just look outside!
05:02Thank god!
05:03This is weird space!
05:04Dude, weird space!
05:05Man is happy, buddy!
05:07India with pride!
05:09India to space!
05:11India to space!
05:12Woo-hoo!
05:14Hey there!
05:16Hey there!
05:17Hey there!
05:22All right, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down.
05:33You see the drag fins, the drag brakes that have just deployed.
05:38Those cut the speed of the booster in half.
05:41Also at the top of the rocket there, you see the forward fins.
05:46They kind of look like pie slices.
05:48One on each quadrant.
05:50That helps keep the vehicle stable.
05:52And there we go.
05:53BE-3 engine relight.
06:01Landing gear deployed.
06:0250 feet.
06:03Can you press second?
06:04Touchdown.
06:05Auto 7 started.
06:06And touchdown!
06:07Welcome home, New Shepard!
06:08What a beautiful flight to space and back for that booster.
06:23But the show is not over.
06:30The crew capsule has deployed its guide parachutes and its mains.
06:38Everything looking nominal on today's flight.
06:46Looks like we do have two parachutes that have full inflation.
06:49The third is not quite fully inflated.
06:53But actually, Jackie, this is part of the design.
06:59One of the, in fact, we were talking about my webcast.
07:02The first webcast that we did, we actually, we tested a shootout.
07:06There are multiple redundant factors in this system.
07:13And so landing with two parachutes is perfectly okay for this system.
07:18You'll also see the dust take out of the base of the capsule as she comes in to land.
07:25That is the air cushioning system.
07:27It's going to kick up a lot of that West Texas dust you just talked about.
07:30But also, there it is.
07:32Touchdown of the crew capsule.
07:34A beautiful flight for our rocket, for our crew capsule, for our six new astronauts.
07:45Mason, Sylvain, Ken, Carol, Gopi, and Ed, you are officially astronauts.
07:52Welcome home, everybody.