Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft has completed its fourth NS-21 suborbital flight. Start Broadcast has been carried out on the company’s website.
Six people were on board, including Evan Dick, Blue Origin’s first regular customer, who took part in the NS-19 mission in December 2021. The other crew member was Catia Ehazarreta, a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer and the first Mexican woman in space. He was chosen to fly by Space for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that offers space travel at their own expense to those who can’t afford it. Also on board were pilot Hamish Harding, Brazilian engineer Victor Correa Hespaña, businessman and adventurer Jason Robinson, and navigator Victor Vescovo, who climbed the world’s highest mountains and descended into the Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the oceans. Mariana Trench.
The launch of the NS-21 was originally scheduled for May 20. However, two days ahead of schedule, the company delayed it because an unspecified backup system on board “did not meet performance expectations”. Blue Origin did not provide further details on the problem or how the company fixed it.
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