{"id":23981,"date":"2021-07-28T16:37:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T20:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23981"},"modified":"2021-07-28T16:37:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T20:37:16","slug":"space-transport-roundup-part-1-general-july-28-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23981","title":{"rendered":"Space transport roundup: Part 1 – General – July.28.2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport (find previous roundups here<\/a>). Part 1 focuses on news from companies and organizations around the world. Part 2 Roundup<\/a> focuses on\u00a0 SpaceX.<\/p>\n

** July 20: <\/strong>Blue Origin<\/a> flies New Shepard with people for first time<\/strong>. On\u00a0 the 52nd anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, a Blue Origin New Shepard<\/a> vertical-takeoff-and-landing rocket lifted off from the company’s East Texas facility with humans aboard for the first time. The crew included Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, Wally Funk, and 18 year old Oliver Daemen (see items below about Funk and Daemen). Their capsule rode atop the New Shepard’s booster powered by a BE-3<\/a> liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen engine. The engine shut off after about 110 seconds at roughly 40 kilometers in altitude<\/a> and the rocket continued upward to over 100 kilometer. Near apogee the capsule separated from the booster. The booster returned for a powered landing while the capsule came back to earth via parachutes.<\/p>\n

Here is Blue’s statement following the flight: Blue Origin safely launches four commercial astronauts to space and back – Blue Origin<\/a><\/p>\n

Blue Origin successfully completed\u00a0New Shepard\u2019s\u00a0first human flight\u00a0today with four private citizens onboard. The\u00a0crew included\u00a0Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk and\u00a0Oliver Daemen,\u00a0who\u00a0all\u00a0officially became astronauts when they passed the\u00a0K\u00e1rm\u00e1n\u00a0Line, the internationally recognized\u00a0boundary\u00a0of space. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Upon landing,\u00a0the astronauts were greeted by their families and\u00a0Blue Origin\u2019s\u00a0ground operations team\u00a0for a celebration in the West Texas desert. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Historic\u00a0Mission\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n