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

Space.com

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

Transcript

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...

01:01Seven...

01:02Six...

01:03Five...

01:04Four...

01:05Command engine start...

01:06Two...

01:07One...

01:08Zero...

01:09Ignition...

01:10Start...

01:11New...

01:12New Shepard has cleared the tower!

01:13Woo!

01:14The rocket and our astronauts are heading up to space!

01:19New Shepard has cleared the tower, and the rocket and our astronauts are heading up to

01:31space.

01:32Now 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.

01:47All right, as we go through this flight, there are a couple of milestones here.

02:08The first one will be max Q. That's when the dynamic pressures are the highest on the vehicle.

02:16We go from 100% power, pull it back a little bit as we go through max Q, and then ramp

02:21her back up to 100%.

02:23Max G should be in about 10 seconds.

02:28Max Q has been confirmed.

02:29Again, thank you, everybody, for joining us for New Shepard's 25th minute

02:35mission to space.

02:36So far in nominal flight, we have gone through max Q.

02:41100,000 feet.

02:42And the vehicle will continue to climb under full power of the

02:47BE-3 engine.

02:54The next milestone will be main engine cutoff.

02:55You will know when that happens, when you see the glow of the engine at the base of the

02:59rocket go dim.

03:06There we go.

03:07The engine is off.

03:08The engine is off.

03:09The engine is off.

03:10The engine is off.

03:11And the vehicle will continue to climb under full power of the BE-3 engine.

03:15Next 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

03:24rocket go dim.

03:30There we go, main engine cut off, confirmed.

03:42Now with the main engine cut off, with the BE3 engine turned off, the vehicle continues

03:54to climb up towards its apogee, but as you will see on the left side, the speedometer

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

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

04:14Now I understand that separation of the capsule from the booster has been confirmed.

04:19All right, let's do this.

04:26All right, over first, over first!

04:30Oh my God!

04:32Oh my God!

04:34Look at the Earth!

04:37Look at the Earth!

04:39Oh man!

04:41Oh my God!

04:44This is like insane!

04:48Okay, I got a few things to do.

04:51All right!

04:52Woo-hoo-hoo!

04:53First for you!

04:54Cam appears!

04:55Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

04:57Dude, look at the Earth!

05:00Just look outside!

05:01Thank God!

05:02This is weird space!

05:03Dude!

05:04Weird space!

05:05Man is happy, buddy!

05:07India with pride!

05:09India to space!

05:11India to space!

05:12Woo-hoo!

05:13Hey there!

05:15Hey there!

05:16Hey there!

05:18All right, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down.

05:32You see the drag fins, the drag brakes that have just deployed.

05:37Those cut the speed of the booster in half.

05:40Also at the top of the rocket there, you see the forward fins.

05:45They kind of look like pie slices.

05:47One on each quadrant.

05:49That helps keep the vehicle stable.

05:51And there we go!

05:52BE-3 engine relight.

05:55lot of Grac steaks!

05:56Awesome!

05:57Creating pasado for God!

05:58Fantastic!

05:59Landing gear deployed.

06:0150 feet, a beat be plugged.

06:03Perfect!

06:06Flash down!

06:08And touchdown!

06:09And touchdown!

06:10Welcome home, new shepherd.

06:12And touchdown.

06:16Welcome home, New Shepard.

06:20What a beautiful flight to space and back for that booster.

06:26But the show is not over.

06:29The crew capsule has deployed its guide parachutes and its mains.

06:37Everything looking nominal on today's flight.

06:42It looks like we do have two parachutes that have full inflation.

06:49The third is not quite fully inflated.

06:53But actually, Jackie, this is part of the design.

06:59In fact, we were talking about my webcast.

07:02The first webcast that we did, we actually tested a shootout.

07:06There are multiple redundancy factors in this in this system.

07:13And so landing with two parachutes is perfectly OK for this system.

07:18You'll also see the dust take out of the base of the of the capsule as she comes in to land.

07:24And that is the air cushioning system is going to kick up a lot of that West Texas dust you just talked about.

07:30But also there it is.

07:32Touchdown of the crew capsule.

07:34A beautiful flight for our rocket, for our crew capsule, for our six new astronauts.

07:44Mason, Sylvain, Ken, Carol, Gopi and Ed, you are officially astronauts.

07:52Welcome home, everybody.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended