Washington: The richest man on Planet Jeff Bezos will drive his own rocket into space on Tuesday, the key moment for the beginner industry who wants to make the last border accessible by elite tourists.
Blue origin has planned his first crew mission, a 11-minute elderly from Texas West to behind the Karman line and returned again, to coincide with the 52nd anniversary of landing the first month.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson made a trip on July 11, narrowly beating Amazon Maggle in their billionaire battle.
But Bezos, like Branson, insisted it was not a contest.
“There was one person who was the first person in the space – his name was Yuri Gagarin – and it happened for a long time,” he told the Today Show at NBC on Monday, referring to the history of the Soviet Cosmonaut 1961.
“This is not a competition, it’s about building a road Towards space so that future generations can do extraordinary things in space, “he added.
The original blue scene is also set higher: either at the height of the new Shepard craft where it can be reused will rise compared to Virgin space, but also in its ambition.
Bezos, 57, established Blue Origin in 2000 with the aim of one day building a floating space colony with artificial gravity where millions of people would work and live.
At present, the company is developing heavy lifting orbital rocket called new Glenn and also a moon lander that is expected to contract with NASA.
New Shepard has flown 15 flights that are not defeated to put them through their steps and test the safety mechanism, such as firing capsules far from Launchpad if the rocket explodes, or lands it with one parachute.
“We learn how to make the vehicle safe enough so we are willing to put the people we love on it, and send them into space,” Blue CEO said from Bob Smith on Sunday.
The elevator-off at 8:00 a.m.
Central time (1300 GMT) from long-distance facilities in the West Texas Desert called one launch site, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the nearest city, Van Horn.
The current weather conditions appear to be profitable and the event will be immediately channeled at BlueRigin.com, starting 90 minutes before it was launched.
Joining Bezos will be a barrier to Wally Funk Women’s Aviability, which at 82 is arranged as the oldest astronaut ever, and the 18-year-old Dutchman Daemen, which will be the youngest.
Around the quartet is Jeff Bezos’s sister and best friend, who directs the Bezos family foundation and works as a voluntary firefighter.
Especially absence is a winner of anonymously from auction of $ 28 million for seats, which has a “conflict scheduling” and will take part in the flight in the future.
Daeman’s father, CEO of a private equity company, is runner-up in the offer, allowing his teenage son to become the first customer payment of the company.
After taking off, the new Shepard will look for a room at a speed of exceeding 2,300 mph (3700 kph) using a liquid hydrogen-liquid oxygen machine which is only a water product is water vapor.
The capsules were separated from the booster, and when it was quite high, the unbuckle astronauts and experienced weight for three to four minutes.
The peak of the spaceship at an altitude of 65 miles (106 kilometers), allows crew members to admire the curvature of the planet, and black feces from the entire universe.
Booster returned independently to the bearing of landing in the north of the launch site, while the capsule was free back to earth with three giant parachutes, and finally a driver, for a gentle landing in the desert.
Funk, who excel in the Mercury 13 project was intended to train women for space, but was rejected the opportunity to go because of sexism from the early space era, said he planned to take advantage of the opportunity.
He told NBC that he was looking forward to floating, spinning and rolling-roll in zero gravity.
Blue Origin remains relatively smart about what happens next.
The company said he planned two more flights this year, then “more” next year.
Analysts said many would depend on the initial success and build solid security records.
Smith, CEO, revealed Sunday that the next launch can take place in September or October, adding “willingness to pay continuously to be quite high.” At the same time, this sector began to face criticism of individual optics that was very rich blew up the temporary space of the earth facing a disaster driven by the climate and pandemic Coronavirus.
“Could there be a worse time for two rich rocket owners who are rich in uber to take a shot fast in the dark?” Writing Shannon Stirone in an Atlantic part titled “Space Billionaires, please read her room.”