00:00Thrust termination system is armed.
00:30The message is on the street space.
00:38Starting role program.
00:44Thirty seconds into flight.
00:47Now you can note the speed and altitude graphics there at the bottom of your screen.
00:51Seven thousand feet and climbing.
00:53And the chart at the left is tracking the main milestone.
01:00Beginning throttle down for cue limiting.
01:10Engine response looks good.
01:28All right, it looks like we've passed max cue.
01:31There you hear on the radio there the max cue has passed.
01:34That's the point at which the aerodynamic pressures on the vehicle are at the max.
01:37Mach 1 vehicle is supersonic.
01:39All right.
01:41And you can just see the glow of the engine there.
01:43Engine back up to full throttle.
01:46The onboard camera looking down at West Texas.
01:49Chamber pressure looks good.
01:54Passing 70,000 feet.
02:05All right, we're approaching 100,000 feet here.
02:11The next milestone that we're looking here for is main engine cutoff or MECO.
02:15And that's the moment at which our astronauts are going to start.
02:18Astronauts experiencing max ascent G's.
02:22Of microgravity.
02:28Begin throttle down.
02:29Stand by MECO.
02:37MECO confirmed.
02:40There's the main engine cutoff.
02:42Stand by separation.
02:44And it's a very clear day in West Texas,
02:46which is why our long range cameras there on the ground on the left side of the screen.
02:50You're seeing the clear shot of the booster.
02:53There's separation.
02:54Separation confirmed.
02:56Amazing.
02:56And this is the point at which the astronauts are going to hear that call from their Capcom,
03:02telling them they can start to unbuckle and enjoy those moments to float around the capsule.
03:07And I can't imagine what's going through me.
03:10He said right now.
03:13You're insane.
03:14Hey, guys.
03:18Emily, I love you.
03:20Grandpa's in space.
03:21Hey, guys.
03:25You're doing it.
03:26You're doing it.
03:27High five.
03:27High five.
03:28High five.
03:29High five.
03:36High five.
03:36High five.
03:38High five.
03:40High five.
03:41High five.
03:42High five.
03:45High five.
03:46High five.
03:46High five.
03:46Oh, my.
03:47Passing the Carmen line.
03:49And there they are.
03:50They've crossed into space.
03:54Now, both the booster and the capsule are both ascending now.
03:58The vehicles are separated, and now they're just both coasting up into their apogee point,
04:03and they're going to reach apogee about the same time, and then begin their journey back to Earth.
04:11You can hear the voices of the astronauts right now as they are floating around the capsule.
04:16Incredible.
04:18Incredible.
04:18Capsule has reached apogee.
04:20Oh, my God.
04:22Congratulations.
04:24Uh-oh.
04:25You're going for office.
04:26Wow.
04:28Four minutes, 15 seconds into flight.
04:31You got it.
04:39An amazing day to fly to space for these six astronauts.
04:43Booster descending past 340,000 feet.
04:45Now, the booster is more aerodynamically shaped than the capsule is,
04:49so it's going to win the race back to the ground.
04:51Capsule body rates look good.
04:52So the chart on the left side of the screen that you see there is tracking the booster.
04:56The chart on the right side is tracking the capsule's descent.
04:59And so that booster is going to first touch down just a couple minutes before the capsule does.
05:06And you hear there the one-minute warning came from Capcom.
05:11They're talking to the astronauts in the capsule, giving them that one-minute warning to return to their seats.
05:17Booster descending nominally.
05:20And one thing I love is that you can see this booster coming down to West Texas.
05:26Astronauts returning to seats.
05:27The astronauts returning to their seats, and the booster will actually land about two miles north from the launch pad.
05:40That's the onboard, we call it the tunnel down view of the booster as it's descending back to Earth.
05:56You'll notice the clouds moving from left to right there.
05:59The booster, as it's ascending, rolls a little bit.
06:03It sort of tosses the crew capsule up into space.
06:05Capsule has reached the atmospheric pierce point.
06:07It improves the capsule ability to spin and get lots of different views of Earth as it's floating.
06:11Confirmed booster forward fin deploy.
06:16As you heard, we have deployed the forward fins, and that is because we need these surfaces to help steer
06:24the vehicle back to the landing pad.
06:27Astronauts are experiencing max Gs.
06:31All right, the astronauts are now back in their seats.
06:33They are also descending back to Earth as well.
06:53Coming up here soon, we'll have my favorite part.
06:56I'm biased because it's the engine, but we will get to see the engine reignite.
07:01Booster drag brakes deployed.
07:03Approach an engine restart.
07:04All right, there's the drag brakes, and you're going to see the velocity of the dropping of the booster here
07:09really cut down.
07:10It's below 500 miles an hour now.
07:18That was the song of Zoom.
07:19And you can see the relay happening right there.
07:30Landing light deployed.
07:31Booster descent nominal.
07:41Booster touchdown.
07:42Booster touchdown.
07:42Welcome home, New Shepard booster.
07:44There it is.
07:45Every time I get to see these booster landings, this is just, this is a miracle of engineering.
07:50Starting booster autosafing.
07:51It's a, it's a treat to be able to see it.
07:54If you ever get a chance to see it in Texas, it's incredible.
07:56It's in Texas.
07:59This is reusable.
08:01Stand by drogues.
08:06So the show is not over because we have the capsule.
08:10And on your screen, you can see that the capsule is descending with the altitude decreasing there.
08:23You should be able to, yep, there's the, there's the crew capsule.
08:26Now we're going to look for the drogue deployment.
08:36There it is.
08:37Looks like we've got three good drogues.
08:39Now these are the.
08:40Drogue deployment confirmed.
08:42These are the initial drogue parachutes that pull out the main parachutes.
08:47Just a few seconds later, there's three good main parachutes have been deployed.
08:55Capsule main parachute deployment confirmed.
08:58There we are.
09:01Three reefed parachutes.
09:02Always really, really good to see this.
09:04Confirmed capsule mains look good.
09:06Amazing.
09:08So these astronauts have gone to space.
09:11They have unbuckled.
09:13They have enjoyed a few moments of floating around the capsule.
09:19And here they are looking out the window, seeing Earth.
09:23Capsule descending nominally past 1,700 feet.
09:26That is a great shot.
09:28We are just under 1,500 feet from the capsule landing.
09:37Oh, my.
09:39What's the camera?
09:42Yeah, I can see it.
09:44I can see it, yeah.
09:45There it is, yeah.
09:49No, the parachutes, they're essential for providing a gentle touchdown for the capsule.
09:54And it also has a retro thrust system at the base of the capsule.
09:57PDS enabled.
09:57Which is going to make the final touchdown even smoother for those astronauts.
10:05Under 1,000 feet here.
10:08That retro thrust system fires just moments.
10:10Approaching retro thrust fire.
10:12Moments before touchdown to slow the capsule down to just a few miles an hour.
10:17It kicks up a tremendous cloud of dust there in the desert.
10:20But rest assured, the astronauts today will enjoy a nice, soft touchdown.
10:30Again, great work by our drone team in West Texas today.
10:47Our astronauts have landed and they have touched down back in West Texas.
10:53Welcome home, crew of NS-37, the 37th mission to space for New Shepard.
11:00It's always great to see the easy touchdown for a New Shepard crew capsule.
11:04Now, at this point, our crew capsule recovery team is going to be driving out in a convoy to meet
11:09those astronauts.
11:10They're going to save the astronauts.
11:11And they're going to save the capsule.
11:11They're going to save the capsule.
11:12Be safe.
