It will be the third Spaniard in the story that crosses the line of karm
Flying, flying by plane was an option available for very few people, but over time access to heavens was democratized. With space we are far from saying the same, but more and more people can pay to see the land from above. Only Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos rocket company, has already launched 47 people beyond the Kármán line. And in his next mission he will lead a Spaniard, The famous adventurer Jesús Callejawho has been telling the preparations of his trip in a Amazon Prime Video and Mediaset documentary. The launch. The Blue Origin NS-30 mission It is scheduled for Tuesday, February 25. If there are no delays, the New Shepard rocket will take off at 9:30 in the morning, local Texas time. 16:30 in Spain. There will be a live broadcast on the Blue Origin web and social networks, which will begin 35 minutes before takeoff. The launch will also be broadcast by Telecinco. It will be the tenth manned flight of the New Shepard program, in the thirtieth flight of the program in general. Kárman line? It is the official border of the space, located 100 km above sea level. There is still atmosphere, but it is so fine that it allows us to observe the blackness of the vacuum, the curvature of the earth and everything that the millionaire space fonds want to experience, in addition to microgravity. The concept was introduced by the Hungarian-American engineer and physicist Theodore von Kármán, who calculated that, at that altitude, the atmosphere would be so dimly that a plane would need to reach orbital speeds to generate sufficient aerodynamic support. Therefore, from that altitude, conventional aircraft cannot operate effectively: we enter the field of rockets and spacecraft. The flight plan. On Tuesday, Calleja and five other crew will access the space capsule at the top of the rocket along the launch tower stairs. The New Shepard will turn on its be-3pm liquid hydrogen engine and accelerate until you throw the ship over the Karman line. While the rocket returns to the launch zone to land, the ship will make a free flight of 3-4 minutes in the space, during which the six travelers experience microgravity and enjoy the panoramic views of the earth. Next, the capsule will begin its atmospheric reentry and open the parachutes to land, 11 minutes after takeoff. The crew. Represented in the mission patch with different symbols are the six crew of the Blue Origin NS-30 flight: Jesús Calleja: The third Spanish to fly to space after Michael López Alegría and Pedro Duque. Mountaineer, pilot, adventurer and presenter of television programs such as Planeta Calleja Lane Bess: Inverter and former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. It is the second time that it flies with Blue Origin, he did it for the first time in the NS-19 mission on December 11, 2021 ELAINE HYDE: Founder of the news company Chicago Star and the artificial intelligence company for Eastside Enterprises media. Studied business and physics Richard Scott: Reproductive Endocrinologist, Embriotic, Scientific Researcher and Founder of Ivirma Global, the largest world group of fertility clinics Tushar Shah: Research partner and co -director in a New York Fondode. He studied physics at the MIT and experimental physics of particles for his doctorate also at MIT And a sixth anonymous crew. It is not known how much each seat has cost, but it is estimated that around a million dollars. As for the patch, it includes design proposals of the crew members themselves, especially those of Calleja himself, which is represented by the mountain, such as climber, the plane and the clouds, as a pilot, and the olive tree, for their desire for peace . Image | Prime Video, Blue Origin In Xataka | In a strange turn of events, Jesús Calleja will be the third Spaniard in history to travel to space
