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Jesús Calleja has become the third Spaniard in going to space. Or seen otherwise, the first Spanish space tourist. Anyway, the famous adventurer has achieved cross the line of karmthe border of space that only astronauts and a few lucky ones had gone through until the arrival of companies such as Blue Origin.
Context. Television presenter Jesús Callej Jeff Bezos Aerospace Company. This has been the tenth tripled flight of the company, which in total has sent 52 people beyond the 100 km of altitude: The official border of spaceaccording to the International Aeronautical Federation (IFA).
Calleja has been telling the preparations for this new adventure in a documentary called ‘Calleja in space’that he had already released his first two episodes in Prime Video and in four waiting for the launch. Produced by Amazon and Mediaset, the flight has been broadcast live in Telecinco, in addition to the official Blue Origin channels.
The presenter’s point of view will arrive in Prime Video next week. Calleja has crossed a border that two Spaniards had gone through: astronauts Michael López-Elegría de la Nasa and Pedro Duque de la Este, which far from discrediting space tourism flights, participated in the documentary.
The preparations. Both in its social networks and on television, Calleja has been telling the details of coexistence and the brief training through which crew members of a New Shepard mission passed before takeoff. The launch platform is in the middle of the desert, so travelers sleep in some bungalós with fair comforts to spend a few days.
Half an hour before the hour originally planned for takeoff, the six crew climbed into the space capsule (which had already flown 11 times) at the tip of the rocket, made a final check of their vital support costumes and systems, and they were instructed one last time on emergency procedures and the correct use of seats and harnesses aboard the ship.
In addition to Jesús Calleja, They were part of the NS-30 mission The investor and former Technological CEO Lane Bess (which was flying for the second time with Blue Origin), the ELAINE HYDE media businesswoman, the reproductive endocrinologist and founder of the fertility clinics Ivirma Richard Scott, the physicist and researcher of Wall Street Tushar Shah, and a sixth anonymous crew.
The flight. After a 20 -minute delay to complete the rocket configuration, Blue Origin’s flight director gave the “go” to take off, which finally occurred at 9:50 in the morning, local time at the company’s facilities to the company West of Texas (16:50 in Spain).
The New Shepard rocket ignited its be-3pm hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine and rose for two and a half minutes, accelerating until separating from the capsule. While the propeller returned to land vertically, seven and a half minutes after takeoff, the capsule began a parabolic flight above 100 km of altitude, officially entering the space for about three minutes.
Blue Origin does not show images of the interior of the capsule during its live emissions, but what is heard from inside the ship. Between laughs and comments in English, the voice of Calleja was heard making comments on how the sky had become black or its first impressions to see the earth from her window: “My mother, please, but how we have this luck.”
Landing In the 8:30 minute of flight, the capsule, already accelerating in free fall to the ground, opened its pilot parachutes and shortly after its three great parachutes. The landing was soft and occurred in the 10:11 minute, with the retrocohetes on the last moment to cushion the impact with the ground, which raised a small dust.
Blue origin teams soon arrived in the area to secure the capsule and open the hatch. Where Jesús Calleja and his teammates came from a few minutes later to hug their relatives. Calleja could not contain emotion and tears before saying: “Earth needs protection.”
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