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...
01:11Of the team.
01:23New Shepard has cleared the tower.
01:29The 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, excuse me, altimeter on the right, and the speedometer on the left.
01:5010,000 feet.
02:03All right, as we go through this flight, there are a couple of milestones here. The first one will be max-Q. That's when the dynamic pressures are the highest on the vehicle. We go from 100% power, pull it back a little bit as we go through max-Q, and then ramp her back up to 100%.
02:23Max-Q should be in about 10 seconds.
02:26Max-Q, Max-Q.
02:28Okay, maximum pressure.
02:3550,000 feet.
02:37Max-Q should be in about 10 seconds.
02:40Whoa.
02:43Wow.
02:53Max-Q has been confirmed.
02:55Again, thank you, everybody, for joining us for New Shepard's 25th mission to space.
03:00So far, a nominal flight.
03:03We 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.
03:14The 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.
03:32There we go.
03:36Main engine cutoff confirmed.
03:38Now, with the main engine cutoff, with 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, its highest altitude, in the flight of the vehicle.
04:14Now, I understand that separation of the capsule from the booster has been confirmed.
04:20All right, let's do this.
04:24All right, all over first.
04:26Let's all over first.
04:28Oh my god.
04:31Oh my god.
04:32Oh my god.
04:34I can't believe this.
04:35Wow.
04:35Look at the Earth.
04:37Look at the Earth.
04:38Oh man.
04:40Oh my god.
04:41Oh my god.
04:43This is like insane.
04:48Okay, I got a few things to do.
04:50All right.
04:52First for you.
04:54Cam appears.
04:55Look at the Earth.
04:56Look at the Earth.
04:57Just look outside.
04:58Oh my god.
04:59There's a white space.
05:00There's a white space.
05:01Man is happy about the India with pride.
05:02India with space.
05:03India with space.
05:04India with space.
05:05Woohoo.
05:06Hey there.
05:07All right, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down.
05:14You see the drag fins, the drag brakes that have just deployed.
05:21Those cut the speed of the booster in half.
05:23Also at the top of the rocket there, you see the forward fins.
05:24They kind of look like pie slices.
05:25One on each quadrant.
05:26That helps keep the vehicle stable.
05:27And there we go.
05:28BE-3 engine relight.
05:29Ooh.
05:30And there we go.
05:31Be-3 engine relight.
05:32Oh my god.
05:33That's crazy.
05:34Wow.
05:35That's crazy.
05:36Wow.
05:37That's crazy.
05:38That's crazy.
05:39Now, you see the, excuse me, the booster that is headed down.
05:40You see the drag fins, the drag brakes that have just deployed.
05:42Those cut the speed of the booster in half.
05:43Also, at the top of the rocket there, you see the forward fins.
05:46They kind of look like pie slices.
05:48One on each quadrant.
05:49That helps keep the vehicle stable.
05:50helps keep the vehicle stable. And there we go. BE-3 engine relight.
06:01Landing gear deployed.
06:14And touchdown. Welcome home,
06:17New Shepard.
06:20What a beautiful flight to space and back for that booster.
06:27But the show is not over.
06:29The crew capsule has deployed its guide parachutes
06:34and its mains.
06:37Everything looking nominal on today's flight.
06:46Looks like we do have two parachutes that have full inflation.
06:49And the third is not quite fully inflated. But actually, Jackie, this is part of the design.
07:00One of the, in fact, we were talking about my webcast. The first webcast that we did, we
07:04actually, we tested a shootout. There are multiple redundant factors in this system. And so landing
07:14with two parachutes is perfectly OK for this system. You'll also see the dust take out of
07:21the base of the capsule as she comes in to land. That is the air cushioning system. It's going to kick up a lot of that West Texas dust you just talked about. But also, there it is, touchdown of the crew capsule.
07:34A beautiful flight for our rocket, for our crew capsule, for our six new astronauts, Mason, Sylvain, Ken, Carol, Gopi, and Ed, you are officially astronauts. Welcome home, everybody.
07:53Welcome home, everybody.
07:54Welcome home, everybody.
07:55Welcome home, everybody.
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