Transcript William Shatner Is Brought to Tears Describing His Trip to Space The actor who played Captain Kirk in “Star Trek” told Jeff Bezos his visit to the edge of space in the Blue Origin rocket was the most profound experience he could imagine. The purpose of the trip, which is billed as Virgin Galactic’s first commercial research mission, is to study the effects of the transition from gravity to microgravity on the human body and other payloads. Two are officers from the Italian Air Force and a third is an Italian scientist. Instead, the customers work for the Italian government. The three passengers will stay aboard the station for 10 days, and have each paid $55 million for the opportunity.Īnother forthcoming private spaceflight with Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin’s main competitor in suborbital space tourism, will carry passengers who are not relying on their private wealth for tickets. Michael López-Alegría, a retired NASA astronaut and Axiom vice president, will join them as the mission’s commander. In February, 2021, three private astronauts will also fly to the space station in a Crew Dragon capsule made by SpaceX and booked by the company Axiom Space. In 2018, he signed up for a flight with SpaceX, Elon Musk’s company, in the hope of one day traveling around the moon, a flight that may be years from occurring. Maezawa has long had extraplanetary aspirations. Maezawa and his production assistant, Yozo Hirano, will travel to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The newest astronauts, Audrey Powers, William Shatner our customers, Glen de Vries and Chris Boshuizen. Stand by touchdown.” “Stand by touchdown.” And the capsule touched down. Welcome to space, the newest astronauts on board our crew capsule. And there they are, over 328,000 feet, over 100 kilometers. “T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 - command engines start - 2, 1.” “The rocket is climbing towards an altitude, we’re aiming just over the Kármán line, the internationally recognized line of space of 100 kilometers that is about 328,000 feet, and a gorgeous view down the rocket. The “Star Trek” star traveled to space with three other passengers on a mission that lasted about 10 minutes. Seven BE-4s will power Blue Glenn’s first stage.Transcript William Shatner Blasts off to Space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket At 90 years old, the actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space and cross the Kármán line. The company has yet to fly New Glenn and is projecting a late 2022 debut pending successful completion of the development of the BE-4 engines. Reusable stages and capsules that deploy parachutes to land space tourists are among the technologies that would be needed to do point-to-point cargo deliveries. In April 2020, it signed a CRADA with XArc (Exploration Architecture Corporation) to advise the command on the conditions needed to utilize commercial spaceports.īlue Origin operates a suborbital New Shepard reusable launch vehicle for space tourism and is developing a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle called New Glenn with a reusable first stage. TRANSCOM signed a CRADA with SpaceX to investigate the use of using SpaceX’s commercial space transportation capabilities to expedite global delivery of DoD materiel and personnel. “We want our understanding of space transportation’s potential to keep pace with the technical and operational realities that are being built now,” he said. “Not every operation will call for logistics through space, but when we need to respond faster, or assure access in challenging environments, we recognize that space now offers a toolkit, not just a concept,” said Vice Adm. The rocket cargo project will use modeling and simulations to analyze the military utility, performance and cost of transporting loads on commercial rockets and air dropping cargo payloads. The Air Force in its budget proposal for fiscal year 2022 is seeking $47.9 million to conduct studies and rocket cargo demonstrations. TRANSCOM’s analysis of industry data will inform the newly created “rocket cargo” program led by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the U.S. Under CRADAs, companies agree to share information about their products and capabilities but the government does not commit to buying anything. Blue Origin is the third company to ink a CRADA for the rocket cargo program. The command last year signed similar agreements with SpaceX and with Exploration Architecture Corp. TRANSCOM oversees global military logistics operations. Transportation Command spokesman said Dec. military to explore the possibility of someday using its rockets to transport cargo and people around the world.Ī cooperative research and development agreement known as a CRADA was signed Dec. WASHINGTON - Blue Origin has signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S.
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