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Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket launched the NS-36 crew from Launch Site One in West Texas.

The crew included Jeff Elgin, Danna Karagussova, Dr. Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman, Vitalii Ostrovsky, and Will Lewis, whose identity was revealed after the launch.

Credit: Blue Origin
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00:01Just the magnitude. Wow you're staring down at the earth. Holy cow. This is cool. We're in space. We're above
00:12the line.
00:18Look at that. Look at that amazing view. Wow.
00:21Wow. Holy cow. Six, five, four. Command engine start. Two, one.
00:57All right. New Shepard has cleared the tower. If you look on the bottom right hand side of your screen,
01:04you'll be able to follow along for the timing as NS-36 heads towards the corner line.
01:09Engine chamber pressure looks good.
01:1610,000 feet and climbing.
01:25Beginning throttle down for Q limiting.
01:28A little bit of a cloudier day out in West Texas today, but you can still see New Shepard.
01:32Engine response looks good.
01:43Max Q. Maximum dynamic pressure.
01:47On your screen there you can see the telemetry on the left hand side bar.
01:52Mach 1 vehicle is supersonic.
01:53You can follow the flight trajectory today. At the bottom you can watch the speed and the altitude climb.
01:59Engine back up to full throttle.
02:05That BE-3 all the way at full throttle.
02:09Chamber pressure looking good.
02:19Passing 70,000 feet and climbing.
02:35Now as you see on your screen, if it does go black and white we're using infrared imaging to see
02:40through the clouds, but right there that is a shot from the booster looking back down on West Texas.
02:44Max ascent G's.
02:49Beginning throttle down, standby Miko.
02:53Standby Miko.
02:55Standby Miko.
02:56We hear some happy astronauts.
03:03Miko confirmed.
03:05And Miko is confirmed.
03:07That is main engine cutoff.
03:09Standby Miko.
03:10Standby Miko.
03:12Standby Miko.
03:12Standby Miko.
03:12Standby Miko.
03:20Separation.
03:21Separation confirmed.
03:23There you have it.
03:24Separation is confirmed.
03:25Our astronauts are experiencing zero G's.
03:28As you can see now we have two bars for tracking our two vehicles.
03:33We've got the booster on the left and the capsule on the right.
03:35As they both continue their ascent to their apogee.
03:40Astronauts are experiencing zero G and doing all sorts of fun stuff up there taking photos looking out the window.
03:47Great long range camera shot there.
03:49Both the capsule and the booster.
03:51We found a break in the clouds.
03:533 minutes 15 seconds into flight.
03:58Man they are having a good time up there aren't they?
04:01Yeah.
04:04Just the magnitude.
04:06Wow you're staring down at the earth.
04:11Holy cow.
04:13This is cold.
04:14We're in space.
04:14We're above the line.
04:20Look at that.
04:21Look at that amazing view.
04:23Do you see the moon out there?
04:24Wow.
04:24We're flying.
04:26Wow.
04:28Do you see the moon out there?
04:30Look for the moon guys.
04:31The moon is incredible.
04:33Out my window.
04:41There you hear the sonic boom.
04:43You see the engine relight.
04:44Engine restart complete.
04:48Nice.
04:49Good shot.
04:50Landing legs deployed.
04:51Landing legs.
04:55Booster descent nominal.
05:01Booster touchdown.
05:03And we have booster touchdown.
05:06Great shot.
05:07Welcome home New Shepard booster.
05:09Starting booster auto-safing.
05:13always a sight to see never gets old always an incredible moment here landing that booster
05:19perfectly on our landing pad getting ready to autosafe it and uh shortly take it back to the
05:26barn for our viewers who might be new here what does autosafing mean oh it just means that uh
05:31we're making sure that the the vehicle is uh is ready for people to get close to it and make
05:38sure
05:38that it's ready to go back to the barn and complete its maintenance before the next flight that's true
05:42we do have a tradition here where we like to take a picture with the booster the team does after
05:47our uh flight we have reacquired a picture of the capsule there it is going through some clouds yeah
05:54that's got to make for a fun experience for astronauts drogues confirmed
06:01the drogues pull out the main parachutes
06:17capsule main parachute deployment confirmed and there you have it all three reefing looking
06:24beautiful against a cloudy west texas guy capsule landing zone is within expected range limits
06:31i love those drone shots
06:35now while the parachutes are essential in providing a gentle touchdown
06:39it is also we also have a retro thrust system on the base of the capsule which will make the
06:44final
06:44touchdown even smoother you'll expect to see a little proof of dust as we land that is all very
06:51very normal that's right it slows the capsule to about one mile per hour just before it lands in the
06:56west texas desert
07:02just about to reach a thousand feet
07:05look how green that west texas yeah it must have been raining there recently i was just about to say
07:11nine and a half minutes into flight
07:28wow that looks like a new cover photo to me gosh beautiful so pretty what a day to fly too
07:37nice job getting a little audio from our astronauts stand by touchdown
07:45approaching retro thrust stand by touchdown
07:57capsule touchdown and we have touchdown welcome back space nomad
08:03auto safing start welcome home in s36
08:06always incredible to see a great easy touchdown for our new shepherd crew capsule
08:11now our capsule recovery team is currently in route to meet the uh the astronauts in the capsule
08:18they're going to save the capsule and get ready to open that hatch
08:21now our new shepherd is now
08:27you
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