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Blue Origin New Shepard NS-16 Astronaut Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-07-20T10:03:10-04:00July 20th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Building on the incremental mission successes for the vehicle over the course of the program’s flight history, NS-16 will fly astronauts for the first time for Blue Origin. This is Blue Origin's 3nd launch of 2021, 16th launch of this suborbital New Shepard type booster and capsule hardware type and 1st human spaceflight. Jeff Bezos [...]

Blue Origin New Shepard NS-15 Launch 🔴 Live

By |2021-04-14T13:38:13-04:00April 14th, 2021|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Building on the incremental mission successes for the vehicle over the course of the program’s flight history, NS-15 is a verification step prior to soon flying astronauts. This mission will execute a rehearsal of astronaut movements and timing for future astronaut flights. One of the primary operations will entail Blue Origin personnel (“astronauts”) entering the [...]

6 Ways SpaceX Starship is Game Changing

By |2020-12-01T09:19:34-05:00December 1st, 2020|Categories: Space Education|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

As SpaceX Starship prepares for its 15 km SN8 test flight, I thought it would be good to talk about 6 of the top features and methods used with the SpaceX Starship and how it will change the game in spaceflight for all agencies and organizations. SpaceX Starship is a great vehicle, but it's also [...]

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