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...

01:01Seven...

01:02Six...

01:03Five...

01:04Four...

01:05Command engine start...

01:06Two...

01:07One...

01:08Zero...

01:09Ignition...

01:10Start...

01:11New Shepherd has cleared the Tower!

01:23The Rocket and our astronauts are heading up to space!

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.

01:4910,000 feet.

02:02All right, as we go through this flight, there are a couple of milestones here.

02:08The first one will be Max-Q.

02:11That'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,

02:21and then ramp her back up to 100%.

02:29Okay, maximum pressure.

02:32Max-Q should be in about 10 seconds.

02:38Max-Q has been confirmed.

02:55Again, thank you, everybody, for joining us for New Shepard's 25th mission to space.

03:00So far in nominal flight, we have gone through Max-Q.

03:04100,000 feet.

03:06And the vehicle will continue to climb under full power of the BE-3 engine.

03:12The 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.

03:24There we go.

03:36Main engine cutoff confirmed.

03:38Fast 200,000 feet.

03:42Now, with the main engine cutoff, with the BE-3, excuse me, the BE-3 engine turned off, the vehicle continues to climb up towards its apogee.

03:56But as you will see on the left side, the speedometer will come down.

04:00And once that speedometer hits zero, that's when you know exactly that the vehicle has hit apogee.

04:06It's highest altitude in the flight of the vehicle.

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

04:20All right, let's do this.

04:22Look at that!

04:24All right, over first!

04:26Let's go over first!

04:28Woo!

04:30Oh my God!

04:32Oh my God!

04:34Oh my God!

04:36Look at the Earth!

04:38Look at the Earth!

04:40Oh man!

04:42Oh my God!

04:43Oh my God!

04:44Oh my God!

04:45Oh my God!

04:46This is psych!

04:47Insane!

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!

05:01Oh my God!

05:02This is weird space!

05:03Dude, weird space!

05:04Man is happy about the...

05:07India with pride!

05:09India to space!

05:10India to space!

05:11India to space!

05:12India to space!

05:13Woo-hoo!

05:14Hey there!

05:15All right, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down.

05:33You see the drag fins, the drag brakes that have just deployed.

05:38Those cut the speed of the booster in half.

05:41Also at the top of the rocket there, you see the forward fins.

05:46They kind of look like pie slices in one on each quadrant.

05:50That helps keep the vehicle stable.

05:52And there we go.

05:53Be-3 engine relight.

05:55Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo...

05:56whit ahead!

05:572, 2, 3...

05:58This is an ostat

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.

06:40It 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.

07:03The first webcast that we did, we actually tested a shootout.

07:06There are multiple redundancy factors 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 capsule as she comes in to land.

07:25That is the air cushioning system.

07:27It's going to kick up a lot of that West Texas dust you just talked about.

07:30But 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.

07:49You are officially astronauts.

07:52Welcome home, everybody.

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