WEST Texas -- Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight and the 22nd flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O’Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry, and Steve Young.
The crew achieved three historic firsts:
· Sara Sabry became the first person from Egypt to fly to space.
· Vanessa O’Brien became the first woman to reach extremes on land (Mt. Everest), sea (Challenger Deep), and air (pass the Kármán line), completing the Explorers’ Extreme Trifecta, a Guinness World Record.
· Mário Ferreira became the first person from Portugal to fly to space.
The New Shepard is a fully reusable VTOL space vehicle. The system consists of a pressurized capsule atop a booster. The components launch vertically, accelerating for approximately two-and-a-half minutes before the engine cuts off. The capsule then separates from the booster and coasts into space. After a few minutes of free fall, the booster performs an autonomously controlled rocket-powered vertical landing, while the capsule lands using parachutes.
New Shepard test flights lift off from Blue Origin's facility in western Texas. During launch, the system reaches speeds of over Mach 3.7.
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