Blue Origin launches 6 tourists to space from Texas

10 987654. Command to start 210. 5000 ft. Crew capsule passing 11,000 ft. All right, New Shepherd has cleared the tower. Take *** look on your screen. On the left hand side of the screen, you’ll be able to follow along with our telemetry, giving you altitude and speed. And then on the bottom right hand side of the screen you’ll be able to see how far we are into NS 38’s flight. Mach one vehicle is supersonic. Engine back to full throttle chamber pressures look good. You are hearing astronauts from inside the vehicle? Oh 00 miles an hour. starting to get dark. Astronauts experiencing max ascent G’s. Again throttle down stand by Miko. Miko confirmed. Miko is main engine cut off by separation. Stan. Yeah. You’ll notice the telemetry graphics have split one for the booster, one for the capsule to follow their respective journeys. Well, well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah 3 minutes 10 seconds into flight. Oh. Oh. Capsule has passed the Carmen line. Sure. Really round. It is flat. Yeah. It’s flat. No. Yeah. I can see the moon, Capsule apogee at 350,000 ft. OK 4 minutes 25 seconds into flight. like Despite the clouds, we’ve got *** nice long rain shot of the capsule and the booster. That 1 minute warning is for our astronauts, knowing that they have 1 minute before they need to get back and buckled into their seats to return to Earth. Booster descending past 300,000 ft. The booster will land about 2 miles north to seats of where uh liftoff was. Booster descent nominal. The booster, of course, returning first because of the aerodynamic shape. And give our astronauts just *** little more time to enjoy. Booster forward fins deployed. Capsule has reached atmospheric pierce point. You were taking *** look from *** camera on our booster pointing back down towards West Texas. Astronauts experiencing Max G. Just over 6 minutes into NS 38. New Shepherd’s thirty-eighth launch. Booster drag brakes deployed. Nice infrared shot there. Approaching engine restart. restart. Fleming legs deployed. And booster touchdown. Welcome home, New Shepherd booster. Welcome home, tale 4. Big shout out to our friends in Kent, Texas, uh, Huntsville, and of course, Florida who are all watching booster saving. *** little bit of *** cloudy day out in West Texas as the cold front is moving in, but *** beautiful shot of tail 4 coming back into land. Again, 2 miles north from the launch pad. We’re about 8 minutes into NS 38, New Shepherd’s 38th flight. Standby Capsule drogue. We are looking to require *** picture. There it is of the capsule. Capsule drogue deployment. Stand by means. Capital means deployed.

Six space tourists lifted off from Texas on Thursday morning. Blue Origin launched its NS-38 suborbital mission during a window that opened at 10 a.m.The crew included Tim Drexler, Linda Edwards, Alain Fernandez, Alberto Gutiérrez, Jim Hendren and Andrew Yaffe.From launch to landing, the New Shepard mission takes just 10 to 12 minutes. In that short window, passengers float weightlessly for several minutes as they take in the contrast of Earth’s curved horizon against the vast darkness of space.In 2025, Blue Origin sent a star-studded all-female crew up to space aboard its space tourism rocket.It was a historic mission as it featured an all-female crew for the first time in a multiperson launch.

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Six space tourists lifted off from Texas on Thursday morning.

Blue Origin launched its NS-38 suborbital mission during a window that opened at 10 a.m.

The crew included Tim Drexler, Linda Edwards, Alain Fernandez, Alberto Gutiérrez, Jim Hendren and Andrew Yaffe.

From launch to landing, the New Shepard mission takes just 10 to 12 minutes. In that short window, passengers float weightlessly for several minutes as they take in the contrast of Earth’s curved horizon against the vast darkness of space.

In 2025, Blue Origin sent a star-studded all-female crew up to space aboard its space tourism rocket.

It was a historic mission as it featured an all-female crew for the first time in a multiperson launch.