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Turismo Espacial

" Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket conducted its tenth test flight on Wednesday – marking another step towards launching paying customers into suborbital space. The launch at Blue Origin’s test site in West Texas took place at 15:05 UTC following a delay from late in 2018 due to an issue with ground equipment and unacceptable weather. This launch was also the third test flight to carry a host of NASA experiments along for the ride. New Shepard is the first of a potential line of vehicles for Blue Origin. The rocket and crew capsule system is aimed at the suborbital tourism market, allowing paying customers to enjoy into a few minutes of zero-G flight prior to a parachute-assisted landing. Jeff Bezos’s company is set to charge between $200,000 and $300,000 per ticket for the short suborbital flight – per unconfirmed media reports over recent years – finding itself in a mini-space race with Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo which itself achieved another milestone back in December. VSS Unity successfully reached the edge of space for a few minutes, earning both its pilots FAA commercial astronaut wings. However, there is a large contrast between New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo, past just the obvious. While Virgin Galactic passengers will enjoy a smooth ride inside the spacecraft under the wing of the carrier aircraft (WhiteKnightTwo) before being released for a short but powerful ascent, New Shepard passengers will be lofted upwards from the launch pad via the more conventional rocket launch. The landings are very different too, with SS2 gliding back to Earth, while New Shepard will return like a conventional capsule, deploying chutes for a soft touchdown on land. "

📌 NOTICIAS

• Blue Origin lanza el New Shepard con instrumentos de la NASA
• El cohete de turismo espacial de Blue Origin entra en el espacio