Blue Origin's NS-25 Launch: Historic Space Tourism Return with 90-Year-Old Astronaut Candidate Ed Dwight

May 20, 2024
Blue Origin's NS-25 Launch: Historic Space Tourism Return with 90-Year-Old Astronaut Candidate Ed Dwight
  • Blue Origin successfully launched its NS-25 mission, resuming space tourism after a nearly two-year break.

  • The flight included six passengers, among them 90-year-old Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate.

  • Passengers experienced weightlessness and viewed Earth from a maximum altitude of approximately 65.7 miles.

  • The mission concluded with a safe parachute-aided landing in Texas, just ten minutes after liftoff.

  • Blue Origin is positioning itself to compete with SpaceX's New Glenn rocket and has future plans to send humans to the moon for NASA.

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