Then, both pieces of the vehicle fall back to Earth the capsule lands under parachutes while the rocket reignites its engine and lands upright. Once high above the Earth, the capsule and rocket separate, and passengers briefly float throughout the cabin.
To get to space, crews launch strapped inside a crew capsule, perched on top of the rocket. Instead, it’s capable of launching crews to the edge of space and back so that riders can experience weightlessness for a few minutes. The vehicle is suborbital, so it cannot achieve enough speed to get into orbit around the Earth. New Shepard is the company’s primary rocket at the moment. When Funk flew, she became the oldest person in space at 82 years old, but this morning, 90-year-old Shatner surpassed her. He flew along with his brother, Mark, a Dutch teenager, and legendary aviator Wally Funk. The company’s first crewed launch on July 20th carried Bezos, who is the former CEO of Amazon. This morning’s flight, lasting just a little over 10 minutes in length, marks the second successful crewed launch for Blue Origin on the New Shepard rocket. Jeff Bezos pins Blue Origin astronaut wings on William Shatner after the flight Image: Blue Origin I hope I never recover from this.” Shatner argued afterward that everybody needs to see what he saw, even comparing the experience of transitioning from blue sky to the blackness of space to what dying might feel like.
I just, it’s extraordinary, extraordinary. “I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. “What you have given me is the most profound experience,” Shatner told Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos after the actor landed. Turner included a more technical definition of the edge of space: "However, a reasonable and popular is that it is the minimum altitude at which an object moving with sufficient velocity could complete one circular orbit of the Earth without the benefit of further propulsion before the drag force associated with the very thin atmosphere at that altitude would cause its orbit to decay and the object to plunge back to Earth.“What you have given me is the most profound experience.”Īfter Shatner landed, he shed tears, emotional about what just happened. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale considered moving the line, perhaps dropping it as low as 80 kilometers (in this scenario, Bezos would still be an astronaut.) And Turner said the line could eventually be defined as high as 150 km, or about 93 miles (in this scenario, Bezos would not be an astronaut.) Turner, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, said via email. "I am reasonably certain there is no single compelling definition for 'the edge of space,'" Edwin L. But Prinja and other experts said that imaginary boundary wasn't precise - and may change in the future.
0 kommentar(er)
