Highlights From The Launch Of Blue Origin NS-25 Crew Enjoying Zero-G

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A Blue Origin New Shepard rocket launched the NS-25 mission from Texas. Watch the crew enjoying zero-g and flight highlights.  According to Space.com, the Six people aboard were Ed Dwight, the U.S.'s first-ever Black astronaut candidate; venture capitalist Mason Angel; Sylvain Chiron, the founder of French craft brewery Brasserie Mont Blanc; entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess; retired accountant Carol Schaller; and pilot and aviator Gopi Thotakura.  Credit: Blue Origin

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00:00All right, let's do this.

00:03Look at that!

00:05All right, over first!

00:07Over first!

00:09Woo!

00:11Oh my God!

00:13Oh my God!

00:15Look at this!

00:17Look at the Earth!

00:19Look at the Earth!

00:21Oh man!

00:23Oh my God!

00:25This is like...

00:27This is like insane!

00:29Okay, I got a few things to do.

00:33All right!

00:35First for you!

00:37Cam appears!

00:39Dude, look at the Earth!

00:41Just look outside!

00:43Oh my God!

00:45Where's face?

00:47Man is happy, buddy!

00:49India with pride!

00:51India to space!

00:53India to space!

00:55Woohoo!

00:57Hey there!

00:59Eight...

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01:05Command engine start...

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01:09Ignition...

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01:24New Shepard has cleared the tower...

01:26The rocket and our astronauts are heading up to space!

01:33Now you can follow along on the bottom left of your screen, the altimeter on the left...

01:39Excuse me, the altimeter on the right and the speedometer on the left...

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01:51all right as we go through this flight there are a couple of milestones here the first one

02:08will be max q that's when the dynamic pressures are the highest on the vehicle we go from 100

02:16percent power pull it back a little bit as we go through max q and then ramp her back up to 100

02:22percent max g should be in about 10 seconds

02:52max q has been confirmed again thank you everybody for joining us for new shepherds 25th mission to

02:59space so far a nominal flight we have gone through max q 100 000 feet and the vehicle will continue

03:08to climb under full power of the be3 engine the next milestone will be main engine cutoff

03:18you will know when that happens when you see the glow of the engine at the base of the rocket go dim

03:25there we go main engine cutoff confirmed

03:38now with the main engine cut off with the be3 you excuse me the be3 engine turned off the vehicle

03:53continues to climb up towards its apogee but as you will see on the left side the speedometer will

03:59come down and once that speedometer hits zero that's when you know exactly that the vehicle

04:04has hit uh apogee its highest altitude in uh in the flight of the vehicle

04:11now i understand that separation of the capsule from the booster has been confirmed

04:19now i'm gonna do all right let's do this all right over first let's over first

04:28okay oh my god oh my god oh my god wow look at the earth look at the earth oh man oh my god

04:43This is like insane. Okay, I got a few things to do. All right, first for you. Cam appears.

04:59Dude, look at the arm. Just look outside. Thank God. Man is happy about the India with pride.

05:08All right, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down. You see the drag fins,

05:35the drag brakes that have just deployed. Those cut the speed of the booster in half. Also at the top of

05:42the rocket there, you see the forward fins. They kind of look like pie slices, one on each quadrant.

05:50That helps keep the vehicle stable. And there we go. BE-3 engine relight.

05:54Landing gear deployed.

06:0250 feet, 8 feet per second. Touchdown. Auto 7 started.

06:12And touchdown. Welcome home, New Shepard.

06:17What a beautiful flight to space and back for that booster.

06:27But the show is not over. The crew capsule has deployed its guide parachutes and its mains.

06:35Everything looking nominal on today's flight.

06:44Looks like we do have two parachutes that have full inflation. The third is not quite fully

06:51inflated. But actually, Jackie, this is part of the design.

06:58One of the, in fact, we were talking about my webcast. The first webcast that we did, we actually,

07:04we tested a shootout. There are multiple redundant factors in this system. And so landing with two

07:14parachutes is perfectly OK for this system. You'll also see the dust takeout of the base of the capsule

07:23as she comes in to land. That is the air cushioning system. It's going to kick up a lot of that West

07:29Texas dust you just talked about. But also, there it is, touchdown of the crew capsule.

07:37A beautiful flight for our rocket, for our crew capsule, for our six new astronauts,

07:45Mason, Sylvain, Ken, Carol, Gopi, and Ed, you are officially astronauts. Welcome home, everybody.

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