It will be cloudy in the early days, but it is expected that there will be some sunny in the later period. About 25F low. The wind is light and changeable...
It will be cloudy in the early days, but it is expected that there will be some sunny in the later period. About 25F low. The wind is light and changeable.
This photo provided by Blue Origin shows, from left: Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, Cameron Bess, Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan and Evan Dick. These six plans will be launched into space.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin's new Shepard rocket booster left a trail when it was launched near Van Horn, Texas on Saturday, December 11, 2021.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, people watch the launch of Blue Origin's new Shepard rocket at the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, after lift-off from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, the parachute lifted the Blue Origin New Shepard capsule into the sky.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, after lift-off from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, the parachute lifted the Blue Origin New Shepard capsule into the sky.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
This photo provided by Blue Origin shows, from left: Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, Cameron Bess, Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan and Evan Dick. These six plans will be launched into space.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
Blue Origin's new Shepard rocket booster left a trail when it was launched near Van Horn, Texas on Saturday, December 11, 2021.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, people watch the launch of Blue Origin's new Shepard rocket at the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, after lift-off from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, the parachute lifted the Blue Origin New Shepard capsule into the sky.
On Saturday, December 11, 2021, after lift-off from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, the parachute lifted the Blue Origin New Shepard capsule into the sky.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched on Saturday, December 11, 2021, carrying TV personality and former NFL football superstar Michael Strahan and other passengers from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas. Joining Strahan's short-distance space flight was Laura Shepard Churchley, the eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, and four paying customers.
On Saturday, football star and TV personality Michael Strahan and Jeff Bezos’ rocket launch company took a plane to space and shared the trip with the daughter of the first American astronaut.
"TOUCHDOWN now has a new meaning!!!" He tweeted after landing.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket was launched from western Texas and took the space capsule for a 10-minute flight with two VIPs and four paying customers. Their autonomous capsule soars to an altitude of 66 miles (106 kilometers), providing a few minutes of weightlessness before parachuting into the desert. The booster also successfully returned to land.
It was five minutes and 50 miles (187 kilometers) shorter than Alan Shepard's Mercury flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on May 5, 1961. His eldest daughter, Laura Shepard Churchley, took away a small part of his Freedom 7 space capsule and his Apollo 14 moon landing program. She also packed some golf balls; her father hit a couple on the surface of the moon.
As the co-host of the ABC show "Good Morning America," Strahan bubbling with excitement in the program updates throughout the week. He took his Super Bowl ring and retired the No. 92 jersey of the New York Giants. Bezos hid a football on board and headed to the Professional Football Hall of Fame.
As soon as Strahan got out of the capsule, he said he wanted to go again. But Bezos joked that next time he must buy the ticket himself.
In a video he released later, Strahan described the experience as surreal and incredible: "Wow, I can only say that. Wow."
At the launch facility near Van Horn, Bezos painted "Light this candle" on the bridge of the launch tower, borrowing Alan Shepard's famous complaint inside Freedom 7 as the delay increased: "You Why not solve your little problem and light this candle?"
Shepard Churchley-she volunteered for Blue Origin's third passenger flight-borrowed the words of her late father and shouted "Let's light this candle!" waiting for takeoff when. The strong wind delayed her flight by two days.
She is the chairman of the board of directors of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.
After a touchdown, Shepard Churchley said: "I thought about my father coming down and thought, my goodness, he can't even enjoy anything I enjoy. He is working. He has to do it himself. I Go and get in the car!"
With space tourism finally taking off, Saturday's launch marked the last launch of this year by a private US company. Virgin Galactic launched the program in July, sending billionaire founder Richard Branson, followed by Blue Origin and SpaceX. So many people are flying that the Federal Aviation Administration announced on Friday that it will no longer designate commercial astronauts or provide wings.
Bezos founded Amazon six years before Blue Origin, and his company debuted in July. The second one was in October and included actor William Shatner, Captain James Kirk of the original TV version of "Star Trek." The daughter of the late Leonard Nimoy presented a necklace with a "Vulcan salute" on the Saturday flight to commemorate the original Mr. Spock of the show.
Among the four space tourists, each paid millions of dollars. The first parent-child combination was the financier Lane Beth and his son Cameron. Also flying: Voyager Space Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Di Leng Leng Le and investor Evan Dick.
Blue Origin dedicated Saturday’s launch to Glen de Vries, who launched into space with Shatner, but was killed in a plane crash a month later.
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