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Blue Origin Completes 26th Mission to Space with Six Crew Onboard (News Release)
Today, Blue Origin successfully completed its eighth human spaceflight and the 26th flight for the New Shepard program. Our astronaut crew included: Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen and Ephraim Rabin. Including today’s crew, New Shepard has now flown 43 people into space.
Karsen Kitchen made history as the youngest woman ever to cross the Kármán line. Rob Ferl became the first NASA-funded researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial suborbital space crew.
If you’re interested in flying on New Shepard as an astronaut or flying a payload on a future mission, visit BlueOrigin.com.
Source: Blue Origin
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Liftoff of #NS26 pic.twitter.com/tZCc2XYm2b
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) August 29, 2024
We just completed our eighth human spaceflight and the 26th flight for the New Shepard program. Our #NS26 crew included: Nicolina Elrick, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, Dr. Eiman Jahangir, Karsen Kitchen, and Ephraim Rabin. Thank you, astronauts!
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) August 29, 2024
Learn more: https://t.co/pDVVGzNUc2 pic.twitter.com/ezlOy9OBo7
Key stats from today’s mission:
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) August 29, 2024
The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 342,314 ft AGL / 345,961 ft MSL (104 km AGL / 105 km MSL)
The booster reached an apogee of 341,985 ft AGL / 345,632 ft MSL (104 km AGL / 105 km MSL)
Official launch time was 8:07:03 AM CDT / 13:07:03 UTC.…
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