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This Bitcoin millionaire paid Spacex to make the first space flight around the poles: he has achieved it

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The Fram2 mission images They do not disappoint. For the first time in history, there are humans flying over the earth from space in polar orbit. And not because a space agency such as NASA or ESA has financed it. It’s about A private mission of Spacex For a cryptocurrency customer. The first manned flight in polar orbit. The mission Fram2 He took off during the early morning of March 31 from Cabo Cañaveral, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The first stage of the rocket returned to the earth to land in a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. The second stage went south to place the Crew Dragon ship in a polar orbit. FRAM2 is the first manned space flight in history with a 90 degree inclination, which means that Its four crew They are the first people who fly over the north and south poles of the earth from space. A Bitcoin tycoon. None of the crew had gone to space before. The commander and patron of the mission is a Chinese millionaire of Maltese nationality called Chun Wang. Wang made fortune as founder of F2POOL, one of the biggest Bitcoin mining platforms that exist. Next to him travel Jannicke Mikkelsen, Norway Cinematographer, ship’s commander and responsible for documenting the mission. Rabea Rogge, expert in robotics and pilot of the mission. And Eric Philips, doctor and mission specialist, who brings his experience as a tanning explorer of the poles. 22 experiments. Even if they are financed by Wang, the four travelers will collaborate with Spacex and NASA with A series of experiments in flight. Among them, the first radiography taken in space and a mushroom culture in microgravity. In addition to a multitude of images of the polar caps taken through the dome, the Module with panoramic views of the Crew Dragon ship. But perhaps the most interesting happens on your return. When Americann, they will be in charge of opening the hatch and leaving the ship, without the help of Spacex rescue equipment, demonstrating this possibility for the first time. A new era. Chun Wang has become the Person number 722 In crossing the line of karm, the official “border” of the space. Characters such as the television presenter Jesús Callejaand will follow him shortly Katy Perry or Lauren SanchezJeff Bezos’s fiancee. Private spatial flights have come to stay and, when there is enough money at the table, the border between space tourism and space exploration is blurred. The Fram2 mission is the first one that flies in polar orbit, but the mission Polaris Dawn, financed by Millionaire Jared IsaacmanIt was the first private mission in which two people carried out an extravehicular activity. Images | Spacex In Xataka | Of the 719 people who have traveled to space, only one has done so without revealing their name. Now we know who it is

Astronauts have become very different from space after a long period outside the planet

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In June 2024, NASA Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station for a mission of 8 to 10 days. However, the Starlliner ship problems They delayed their return Until March 2025286 days later. What began as a short stay became more than nine months of microgravity, which It can have deep effects In the body of astronauts: muscle atrophy, loss of bone density, cardiovascular alterations, vision and stress problems. This was its appearance before being thrown into the space in the Starliner ship: And this is its appearance when returning in the Crew Dragon ship that rescued them: Decades of aging Both NASA Like ESA They have studied in depth the effects of exposure to space and microgravity on the human body. One of the most common is the loss of muscle and bone mass. In the International Space Station there is no severity that forces the muscles and bones to work to sustain the body, so the tissues begin to weaken due to disuse. Astronauts lose about 1% bone mineral density for each month that pass in space. Their muscles, especially those of the legs and back, end up atrophy, hence they have trouble standing after landing on earth. To mitigate this effect, the ISS crew are subjected to railway routines: two hours a day on the running tape, static bicycle or resistance exercises. But it is not enough: a study published in Scientific Reports revealed that a stay of more than six months in space can cause bone losses equivalent to decades of aging on Earth. It is common for astronauts to have a greater risk of fractures due to the lower resistance of their bones, as if they were elderly. For Butch and Suni, with an expected bone loss of 9-10%, NASA has established An intensive 45 -day physical rehabilitation program. Even so, for many astronauts the recovery is incomplete even one year after returning. It is lacking two to four years for the muscles of a person to fully recover their original strength after a prolonged mission. Effects of microgravity Upon floating, body fluids are redistributed to the upper body, since gravity does not throw them towards the feet. This causes the swollen face feature seen in astronauts aboard the ISS. But it also has internal consequences: the body interprets that there is excess fluid and reduces total blood volume. With less blood volume and without the need to pump against gravity, the cardiovascular system relaxes. The heart can lose weight of its muscle walls and blood pressure tends to fall. Upon returning to the ground, this adjustment sometimes cause dizziness or even fainting (orthostatic hypotension), since gravity takes the blood again to the legs, and the bodyIt takes time to fall. Astronauts often use special compression suits or increase fluid and salt intake before the reentry to minimize these symptoms. Even so, it is common for them to remain seated, as happened with Butch and Suni when you get off the Crew Dragon, waiting for your body to be rebuilt. Another important physical effect discovered in the last decades of space exploration It is the so-called neuro-ocular syndrome associated with space flights (Sans). Without gravitational attraction, the displacement of fluids to the head can increase intracranial pressure, which in turn slightly deforms eye balloons and compresses the optic nerve. Many astronauts in prolonged stays report changes in their visual acuity: they can develop temporary farsightedness (difficulty seeing closely), which means that their eyes change under internal pressure. In long -term missions, More than 70% of astronauts They have come to suffer Sans. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a year in space and then be compared to his twin brother Markdeveloped an edema of the optic nerve and changes in the retina. Prolonged ungrampidity and the closed environment of the ISS also They affect the immune system of astronautscausing changes in the distribution of white blood cells and in the Expression of certain immune genes In response to the extreme environment. Paradoxically, living in the sterilized environment of ISS can weaken the immune response over time: by not exposing yourself to so many everyday pathogens, the immune system lowers the guard. Cutaneous eruptions, allergies and even reactivation of latent viruses (such as herpes) have been observed due to the decrease in defenses. Radiation and nine months of stress At the same time, prolonged missions astronauts accumulate significant exposure to Solar radiation and cosmic raysnot having the atmosphere as a protective shield. However, a nine -month stay is within the acceptable limits of NASA, since the ISS orbit the Earth only 400 km of altitude. Cell damage It will be a much greater problem In future long -term space flights to the moon and Mars. More worrying are the Psychological effects of prolonged confinement in a space station that orbits the earth 16 times a day. The schedules are not a problem because the ISS follows a strict time routine with the time of the Greenwich meridian. But the lack of natural cycles of light and dark can alter biological rhythms, cause sleep deprivation or reduce cognitive performance. In the end, what can happen more invoice is the psychological experience of being working in a confined environment, far from the family and with a handful of classmates from different countries. In the case of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, this situation was aggravated by uncertainty: its mission was extended due to technical problems, for a long time without a clear return date. Hence Wilmore’s daughter will mention stress Like a problem. The good news is that most body changes in space are not permanent. Approximately 95% of physiological alterations return to normal in the weeks after return. Astronauts typically recover their balance and ability to walk in a few days, fluid distribution is rapidly normalized and sleep disorders tend to improve by reestablishing terrestrial cycles. As for psychological sequelae, career astronauts are chosen for their predisposition to be rendered under … Read more

Elon Musk has said that Mars will be part of the United States. It is an unusual affront to the outdoor space treaty

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See Elon Musk on stage in a political event is already a guarantee that In the morning the bread will upload. But this time his words have resonated beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The echo has felt up to Mars. The phrase. During a political rally in Wisconsin, with a gigantic American flag projected behind him, and dressed in his Spacex blue jacket, Elon Musk pronounced The following phrase: “I will die in the United States. I’m not going anywhere. I could go to Mars, but it will be part of the United States.” The affront. He Treaty about outer space From 1967, signed today by 115 countries, it establishes that “the ultra -resort space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriations by claim of sovereignty, through use or occupation, or by any other means.” Musk’s statement, individually, does not directly violate the agreement, which is only binding for governments. But his words are an unusual affront if they are interpreted as a suggestion that the United States will claim Mars as his, violating international law. The contradiction. Interestingly, Spacex, Elon Musk’s aerospace company, keeps in the Starlink service terms A legal notice about Mars that contradicts the treaty and in turn the recent statements of its founder: “For the services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars through Starship or other spacecraft, the parties recognize that Mars is a free planet and that no land government has authority or sovereignty on Martian activities. Consequently, disputes will be resolved by principles of self -government, established in good faith, at the time of the Martian resolution” What is the plan. Since the foundation of Spacex in 2002, Musk’s long -term vision includes the Colonization of Mars. Its objective is to establish a self -sufficient settlement on the red planet that would guarantee the survival of humanity as a multiplaneary species if something happened on earth. Spacex is developing the Gigantic Rocket Starship To give logistical support to this titanic project, and plan launch the first unmanned missions At the end of next year. But at the time of truth, only governments and hundreds of thousands of volunteers willing not to return They would have the ability to carry out a permanently inhabited colony on Mars. Political pressure. NASA marked as a priority objective the return to the moon, but Musk, which Consider the moon “a distraction”he is pressing the agency with its political power and its enormous resources to accelerate the missions with astronauts to the red planet. You have already got Donald Trump Declare Mars the “manifest destiny” from the United States, and things could get even more on their part if Jared Isaacman, Spacex’s commercial partner, assumes NASA administration after being nominated by the president. Against the law. Of course, one thing would be to plant the American flag on Mars, something that also China intends to do with yours in 2040and another very different would be to claim the independence of a Martian colony. Any property claim on Mars, does NASA or Spacex, would be considered an American claim, due to its continuous jurisdiction, and would be prohibited. If Musk’s declaration is interpreted as a territorial claim, It would be incompatible with the principles of the international treaty. On the other hand, it is true that Musk has no problem changing his opinion. Until recently, he argued that Martian settlers would directly legislate the planet with a political self -government system for direct democracy. The laws would be voted by the people, without political intermediaries, the businessman proposed. Images | POT, Wisconsin Young Republicons In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

Spacex will launch next week the first polar space flight in history. Your client: A Bitcoin tycoon

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Incredible things happen by mixing large heritage with the spacex’s launching ability. The First private extravehicular activity either The manned flight to the highest altitude from the Apolo program They were two great milestones of the Polaris Dawn mission. But the new Fram2 mission will achieve something that had never been done, not even by space agencies. Fram2 will be the First spatial flight manned in polar orbit. The first time a ship will take its occupants to fly over the polar caps. Commanded by Chun Wang, a Chinese-Maltés entrepreneur who made fortune with Bitcoin mining, the four crew will be the first humans who observe first-hand the north pole and the southern pole of the earth from space. The never seen To date, there has never been a space flight with astronauts in polar orbit. The highest inclination reached by a manned mission was 65 degrees and the Soviets achieved in 1963 with the Vostok 6. Spacex mission aspires to achieve a pure polar orbit of 90 degrees. To access a polar orbit, the ship must be launched north or south, passing on inhabited land regions. The fuel spending is greater and, in case of emergency during takeoff or re -entry, it will be more complicated to guarantee a safe landing and the rescue of the crew. The launch of the mission, aboard the Crew Dragon ‘Resilience’ ship of Spacex, is scheduled for Monday, March 31 at 23:30, local time of the 39A launch platform of the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. Spacex will have to land the propeller of the Falcon 9 rocket in Bahamas For this mission. Who travels Fram2 mission crew The person behind the mission is Chun Wang, the co -founder tycoon of F2POOL, one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies that exist. Stake Fish has also founded, an Ethereum stake platform. They are very profitable businesses, taking into account that a flight on board Crew Dragon of Spacex costs about 200 million dollars. Wang was born in China. Acquired the nationality of Malta in 2023 With a gold passport. Vive Svalbard (Norway), but flies almost daily with the aim of visiting the 249 recognized countries and territories of the world. Next to him will fly a Norwegian cinematographer, a German scientist and an Australian doctor: Jannicke Mikkelsen: He will be responsible for documenting the mission. With experience in filming under extreme conditions, it has registered polar flights and other projects in remote locations. Rabea Rogge: Mission pilot, focused on polar robotics research for your doctorate in Norway. He has directed satellite missions and works with advanced technologies in the Arctic. Eric Philips: Doctor and specialist in the mission, contributing years of expeditions to both poles and the prestige of their participation in polar guidelines. The crew has received An intense eight -month training which included microgravity simulations, rescue techniques, first aid and coexistence tests in small spaces, including an experience in the Alaska desert to ensure its adaptation to extreme conditions. Three to five days FRAM2 crew with their space costumes The ship that will transport the four crew on this journey is the Crew Dragon “Resilience”, which has already flown in three missions: Crew-1, Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn. On this occasion it will be equipped with the Cupola module, a glass dome that will offer panoramic views of the poles. The Fram2 crew They will do scientific research on atmospheric phenomena and collaborate with Spacex in studies for future long -term space flights. The itinerary of three to five days includes 22 scientific experiments. Among them Spacexray, the first radiographs made to human beings in microgravity, and Study Egresss, with which they will evaluate their ability to perform maneuvers to get out of the ship after their removal and secure it without help from rescue equipment. Images | Spacex In Xataka | Polaris Dawn is a success: Spacex has just changed the rules of the game with the first commercial space walk

A Falcon 9 rocket rented without control over Poland. Poland has now fired the dome of its space agency

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The fall of several remains of A Falcon 9 rocket from Spacex in Poland He has caused another fall weeks later: that of the president of the Polish Space Agency, fulminated by the government of his country. A little context. In the early hours of February 19, the second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which had failed by exorbiting two weeks before, rented without control in the earth’s atmosphere. The 13.8 meters long propeller by 3.66 meters in diameter disintegrated over northern Europe. The fragments that survived the heat of the reentry They fell near the city of Poznan. A meter and average length tank, covered with carbon fiber, hit the enclosure of an electrical material warehouse without causing damage. A warehouse employee gave the police to the police. The initial answer. The next day, the Polish Space Agency (PoSA) said he had reportedly informed various institutions of the Polish government about the incident. His space security department said, always monitor threats of artificial space objects, such as rockets. Spacex exorbitous normally the Falcon 9 on the ocean, far from populated areas. In this case, a technical failure after the deployment of the Starlink 11-4 mission on February 2 made the second stage of the rocket You will not be able to meet your engine To re -enter controlled. The rocket spin around the earth until entering the atmosphere due to gravity and atmospheric braking. He did it on February 19 at 4:43, Poland time. Contradictions. The appearance of several fragments of Falcon 9 in different parts of Poland triggered an internal crisis. Krzysztof Paszyk, the Minister of Polish Development and Technology, went out to contradict Posa, stating that the Polish Space Agency had not informed the authorities as he said, and asking for urgent explanations to the president of Polsa, Grzegorz Wrochna. On February 28, Pols European Spaceflight. To further complicate things, on March 2 Polsa suffered a cyber attack that forced her to disconnect her Internet systems until day 5. The dismissal. Finally, on March 11, the Ministry of Development and Technology of Poland officially announced the dismissal of the president of Polsa, Grzegorz Wrochna. The president was fired for inappropriate management of the uncontrolled fall of remains of Falcon 9 over Poland. For his part, Spacex clarified that I was collaborating with the Poland government in the tasks of recovery and cleanliness, and that there were no toxic materials present in the remains. The company has a specific phone and email to inform the remains of its rockets: 1-866-623-0234 and recovery@spacex.com. Image | Posa In Xataka | Spacex has given explanations about the rocket that rented without control in Europe: again a leak of the second stage

A Pakistani astronaut at the Chinese space station is not only unusual. It is China occupying US power vacuum

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In the coming years, the Chinese Space Station Tiangong You will receive your first crew of another nation, Pakistan. Although it will be a short -term mission, it represents a cycle change: China opening to other countries, while the United States closes. The agreement. China and Pakistan They signed a cooperation agreement on Friday To train Pakistani astronauts and perform the first international missions to the Chinese Space Station Tiangong. China and Pakistan will dedicate a year from May to select Pakistani astronauts, who will be trained in China before joining their counterparts in the neighboring country in the Orbital Laboratory for short -term missions. Chinese-Pakistan ties. Pakistan was one of the first countries to recognize the People’s Republic of China in 1950. The two nations have continued to strengthen ties since then, both economically as in the military and technological: according to the CIA, China even helped develop Pakistan’s nuclear program in the 80s. In recent years, Pakistan has sought to improve his spatial capabilities by resorting to the help of his neighbors. In May, it was one of the countries that placed experiments aboard the Chang’e-6 lunar probe, which ended up turning China into The first country to recover successfully Soil samples of the hidden face of the moon. Which symbolizes tiangong. China decided to develop its own space station after the United States prohibited Any direct collaboration between NASA and the Chinese Space Agency (CNSA), preventing its participation in the International Space Station. After trying two prototypes (Tiangong-1 between 2011 and 2018 and Tiangong-2 between 2016 and 2019), China launched the first module of its permanent space station in 2021. The Tiangong Space Station has three modules and is uninterruptedly inhabited Since 2022, with astronaut rotation missions, first, every three months, and then, every six. The twilight of the ISS. With 16 pressurized modules (the oldest, 26 years old), the International Space Station has long been the maximum exponent of cooperation between countries. But Structural fatigue begins to be a problem and maintenance investments have been increasing. The official plan (Elon Musk has his own) is to keep the ISS operational until 2030 and then tow it to a safe place where to let it disintegrate by entering the atmosphere. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, wants to have its own space station, and NASA trusts that the ISS is replaced by a commercial stations plethora. The future of the low orbit. There are few companies that are developing commercial space stations to offer space tourism services, experiments in microgravity and, ultimately, cover the hole that the ISS will leave from 2030: Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Voyager Space and Airbus… But neither does it lack ambition to China in the extensions planned for its space station, Tiangong, which in the coming years will double the number of modules to six And it will begin to accommodate, as we have seen, astronauts from other countries. Another next milestone will be the launch Xuntian Space Telescopescheduled for 2026. It will share the same orbit as the station (400 km altitude) and may be coupled to it for maintenance and improvement tasks. China occupies power vacuum. When NASA definitely abandons the low terrestrial orbit (or delegate it to its commercial partners), China will be there to occupy the void, opening to other countries to accommodate its astronauts, taking advantage of a abandonment of functions in international cooperation. It will not be the first time that China occupies a space that the United States leaves free. It has occurred on the Moon, ignored by NASA for a long time from the Apollo missions, occasion that the Chinese space agency took the opportunity to achieve symbolic milestones such as alunizar on the hidden satellite face and bring the first soil samples. Cycle change. With NASA receiving instructions to conquer Mars after Elon Musk convinced Donald Trump that the moon is a distraction, the NASA Artemis missions They are questioned. Now China has an opportunity. Not only to establish the “De facto International Space Station” in the low terrestrial orbit, but also a series of milestones that NASA had marked in its calendar of symbolic victories. The First woman who steps on the moon It could be China, if Artemis ends up falling apart. And then the first lunar orbital station? And then the First manned lunar base? If there is a cycle change, China will take advantage of it. Images | Shujianyang, China Ministry of Foreign Affairs In Xataka | 400,000 meters above the earth, China is undertaking a crucial mission in its space station: fortify it In Xataka | It is not that Elon Musk has managed to introduce its influence on NASA. Is that he has entered sweeping

The only space launch of history without men occurred in 1963 in the USSR. Katy Perry will be in the second

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Singer Katy Perry will be one of the next six people to cross the space border aboard a Blue Origin rocket. He will do it in spring with five other women. Among them, Lauren Sánchez, the fiance of Jeff Bezos. A crew composed of women. The Blue Origin NS-31 mission It will be the first with an exclusively feminine crew. Organized by Lauren Sánchez to “inspire the coming generations,” he will take six notable women above the Kármán line, the border of the space to 100 kilometers above sea level. Katy Perry: Pop star with 143 million albums sold and more than 115,000 million views Lauren Sánchez: journalist, helicopter pilot and promised of Jeff Bezos, the owner of Blue Origin Gayle King: journalist, co -presenter of “CBS Mornings”, editor of Oprah Daily and presenter of Gayle King in The House Aisha Bowe: former NASA rocket scientist, Executive Director of Stempoard and founder of Lingo Amanda Nguyen: Research scientist in Bioastronautics, and future first Vietnamese woman to go to space Kerianne Flynn: produced the movie ‘Lilly’, which portrays the trajectory of Lilly Ledbetter, the activist who achieved the right salary law in the United States The second space flight without men. Only the Soviet Union had made a space launch without male crew. It was on June 16, 1963 aboard the Vostok 6 capsule. We refer to the historical flight of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman who traveled to space. While Blue Origin’s NS-31 mission will be a 10-minute suborbital flight with six crew, Valentina Tereshkova flew alone and orbit the earth for almost three days, completing 48 laps around the planet. The United States did not send a woman to space, astronaut Sally Ride, until 1983. NS-31. The mission will take place in spring. Little New Shepard rocket of liquid hydrogen will take off from the Blue Origin facilities to the west of Texas. Then he will separate from the ship in which the six crew members will go, who will make a parabolic flight of a few minutes experiencing the ingatherness. This mission will be the eleventh manned flight of the New Shepard program. To date, the program has led 52 people above the Kármán line. On the last flight the Spanish television presenter Jesús Callejaas part of a mediaset and Amazon Prime Video documentary. And what Katy Perry says. The singer has shared the news On Instagram With the following message: “If you had told me that it would be part of the first female crew in space, I would have believed you. Nothing was above my imagination when I was a girl. Although we did not grow much, I never stopped looking at the wonderful and hopeful world.” “Hard work to live my life in that way yet, and I am more motivated than ever to be an example for my daughter that women should occupy space (intentional words game). That is why this opportunity is so incredible, so that I can teach the youngest and most vulnerable among us to reach the stars, literally and figuratively. I feel honored to be among this group diverse of heavenly sisters.” Images | Katy PerryBlue Origin In Xataka | The Calleja effect: Going to space is going from a great aspiration of humanity to a “Ryanair with rockets”

This man is the first person who flies to space without revealing his identity. They haven’t taken to find out who it is

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Six people traveled yesterday to the Blue Origin suborbital rocket. One was Jesús Callejathe first television presenter that crosses the line of Kárman as part of the filming of a documentary. In the same ship another five people flew. Four of them, millionaire businessmen and executives who had paid for the flight. The sixth crewman was an anonymous person. Was An anonymous person because on the Internet there are difficult secrets to maintain. Context. They are already going 52 people That they fly to the space with Blue Origin since Jeff Bezos, the owner of the company, premiered the small New Shepard rocket with his brother Mark, the aviator Wally Funk and the young Oliver Daemen (the oldest woman, with 82 years, and the youngest man, with 18, in crossing the border of the space). Taking into account that just 719 people have traveled beyond the 100 kilometers of altitude, Blue Origin’s space tourists begin to be a multitude in the select club of people who have gone to space. With its flights for millionaires of just 10 minutes, the New Shepard rocket has a growing record of records: the oldest man (William Shatner), the first Mexican (Katya Echazarreta), the first Portuguese (Mário Ferreira), etc. What they had not had until now was an anonymous passenger. The first suborbinaut without name. Of the 719 people who have flown to space so far, none had done without revealing their name. The astrophysician Jonathan McDowell knows it well, who maintains a database of all space flights in historystarting with Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, and Alan Shepard, on a suborbital flight, 23 days later. When McDowell went to update his database with the crew of the NS-30 mission of Blue Origin, he decided not to settle for the unknown of the sixth traveler (the first stain of the history) and asked his followers (in a tweet now erased) if they could find out who he was. Most of the answers reproached McDowell having used their influence to try to expose a person who wanted to remain anonymous. Others They wondered If it could be the camera of Jesús Calleja (but why hide his identity, then?). Until, finally, one of McDowell’s followers found who he was. R. Wilson. Blue Origin had diligently complied with his client’s desire. The mysterious traveler He went out to face discovered In the official photos and videos of the mission, but on the web, on social networks, in the press releases, in the retransmission of the launch, Blue Origin only mentioned the first five passengers with name and surname, adding: “and a sixth crewman whose name has not been revealed.” What did not help the man to preserve his identity was to have his initial and his last name embroidered in the space suit: R. Wilson. However common the last name Wilson was enough to French YouTuber Ufotinik He will find his full name and news about him on the Internet. An Australian cryptocurrency. Jesús Calleja mentioned in an interview that an Australian friend had done on the mission. Perhaps he refers to Russell Wilson, founder of the Coinspot cryptocurrency exchange platform, based in a modest Melbourne building. According to a report of 2023 of the Daily MailWilson leads a discreet life in the city’s suburbs, although he has paid 538 million dollars in dividends. The report includes a photo of the businessman, who already maintained a low profile and avoided public attention, delegating media appearances in his executives while led the company from anonymity and following strict security protocols. He failed to maintain anonymity then, nor has he achieved it on his trip to space. But McDowell’s efforts for not letting an entry into its database only reinforce the initial idea of ​​this article: space tourists are beginning to be a crowd in the select club of people who have gone to space, so we will see more and more eccentricities above the karm line. After all, career astronauts, those of space agencies, are officials chosen and formed to the extreme for a single thing: act according to the protocols and be predictable in any situation. Images | Blue Origin In Xataka | Jesús Calleja is already a history of Spanish space exploration: its launch is a success and has taken him to space

Finishing in space was your natural conclusion

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Jesús Calleja is, surely, one of the most famous adventurers in Spain. Or at least one of the most media. Now he faces the one who is possibly the greatest challenge of his life: externala trip that makes with the company Blue Originaboard the New Shepard spacecraft. As has been repeated on countless occasions, it becomes thus THE THIRD SPANISH IN HISTORY in traveling to space after Miguel López-Elegría and Pedro Duque, so that he can add a more milestone to their long recourse and superhuman goals. As a child, mountaineer. Calleja’s first vocation was Montañero, in love with the stories that his father read him About expeditions to Everest or Antarctica. After heating at the Naranjo de Bulnes, he visited the Himalaya with 21 years, where – as later in the Alps – he became a guide. He has come to travel more than 60 times to Nepal, and everything he won as a guide invested in other aspects of his adventurous life, such as learning to pilot planes. With 37 years he left his work as a hairdresser to devote himself to the mountain. To climb. In this period, at the beginning of the century, he climbed his first eight -meter peak (there is only fourteen on the planet, all in the Himalayas and Karakórum mountain ranges), the choc oyu. Already then had a certain media profile: he crowned a virgin mountain of 6000 meters in the Indian Tibet, baptized it ‘Madrid for Peace’ in tribute to the victims of 11-M and broadcast it in real time by its website. In 2005, with the sponsorship of several official agencies, He went up to Everestbecoming the first Spaniard to achieve it by the southern face. More media turns. Descending from Everest he had an idea: chaining adventures could also chain sponsorships, and thus set up a project in which he would climb the Seven summits (The highest of each continent), crown some eight thousand more, go to the north pole and participate in two rallies: that of the pharaohs and the Paris-Dakar. All in two years and recording it with its own camera. In 2007 (remember, only two years after climbing Everest and becoming a celebrity of the world of adventure in Spain), four bought it ‘Extreme challenge‘, program that would enjoy seven seasons, and starting a relationship between adventurer and channel that lasts until today. Many more adventures. Pure mountaineering simply became an ingredient more of its many expeditions. In 2009 he traveled to Iceland to visit the three most active volcanoes of the place (And Eyjafjalajökull erupted when they were there), he finally participated in the Dakar, practiced in depth, immersed himself in glacial waters in areas with sharks (many of these practices with the diving instructor María March) … his fame On television it was increasingly remarkable and challenged ‘Challenge in Himalaya’, ‘Vertical Challenge’, ‘Evrest Challenge, and’ Challenge to the abyss’, in format reality and with anonymous adventurers. The stardom of adventure. The turn to what we could call the mainstream of the adventure was given in the period that began in 2014 with ‘Calleja Planet‘, where he undertakes adventure challenges accompanied by celebrities of all kinds, such as José Mota, Pedro Sánchez, Edurne, Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth and many others, until reaching the 12 seasons they currently carry. Next to this he has shot the quietest ‘flying I go’, where he claims rural spaces of the Emptied Spain. And finally, to space. Jesús Calleja becomes the first non -astronaut Spaniard (that is, a Space tourist) in going to space, in a project that has included a Documentary series about its preparation (issued by Prime Video), and in which Mediaset, Amazon and Zanskar, the Calleja producer themselves. The whole process has been well registeredbut perhaps one of the most relevant aspects of this new adventure, which is now coming out as planned, is in the media relevance that Calleja now acquires. The common astronaut. The image that is projecting is exactly the real one: an common person who, thanks to The tourist touristificationmanage to travel to space. But beyond what that means for the aerospace sector, it is also the culmination of a certain line of the Calleja race, which from the internet broadcast of its first adventure was spectacularizing the risk and, thanks to its accessible and tremendously Sympathetic for the average television spectator, everyday life adventure. Before the influencers, Calleja was. Jesús Calleja began late his life as a serious adventurer, with no less than 37 years. Even so, your spirit can be fully identified with that of the current Influencers of adventure: people who like to expose themselves to risks and challenges as varied as possible so as not to bore their audience, and with projects completely mediated by the possibility of making them public: if they cannot film them, they do not exist. From that point of view, the next logical step was to travel to space, but it is an adventure that they could not face Influencers Younger and famous, so for the moment, television, its massive and deep impact of their pockets win the battle. Header | Prime video In Xataka | After the successful launch of the New Glenn, the layoffs arrive: Blue Origin will cut 10% of its workforce

Going to space is going from a great aspiration of humanity to a “Ryanair with rockets”

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When Andy Davis opened his birthday gifts that afternoon of 1995, I was about to certify One of the most important changes of the cultural imaginary of the American twentieth century: the death of Western and the consecration of the astronaut as a great aspirational figure. Because, forgive me the expression, but how astronauts were cool. We talked about people who prepared for decades, who risked their life every fighter second and who achieved feats that we, simple mortals, could not even imagine. There was nothing more glamorous and guay than to be an astronaut. Now The thing has changed. The life cycle of all means of transport. When the train was invented, first There was curiosity. Then, fear. Later, luxury. And finally, The Rodalías de Barcelona either The Extremadura train. It is a law of life: a kind of Kübless model of the social perception of the means of transport. The same thing happened with the planes. From the first test flights we move on to Spirit of Sant Luisthen to the luxurious airplanes of the 60s And, now, a manifestly bad service that we usually associate with lowcost airlines, but that affects the entire sector. In space, we are living that process and we are living it very quickly. But why? In the background, what we are seeing is the logical development of the privatization of the space race. And, as we have been pointing for years, what has been privatized now is not space. The space has been privatized for many years. What we are living is the privatization of spatial sleep. Or, in other words, what we have seen is the birth of companies that are knowing how to take advantage of space rhetoric to find financing (winning the large agencies). Behind all that space rhetoric … The new space race does not “become an interplanetary species” or take “tourists to space.” The new special career goes, for now, to finance the development of an infrastructure Very expensive, very lucrative and that will be indispensable in the future. When Jeff Bezos said that the great battle is in whom it is responsible for taking out the devices from the earth (the basic infrastructure of the new space race or, as he said, The ‘Amazon Web Services’ of space) He was right, but fell short. There is Many critical services They will depend on what happens up there. Tourism (and the ‘banalization’ of space) is key in all this. Since Dennis Tito became the first space tourist In 2001 (and counting The six of Jesús Calleja’s last trip) About 84 people have gone to space to do something we could call “tourism.” That is to say, Jesús Calleja is a symptom of that progressive banalization of space, yes; But we already had many previous examples. The key is to take the analysis one step further: in understanding that the ‘democratization’ of space trips come to replace the spatial epic of the cold war years. It is its “aggiornamento”, its contemporary version: the story that serves to continue moving the gears of the development of the space industry. That is why it makes sense that a television star goes to space, so it makes sense wanting to lower costs, so it makes sense to take many people. Because as with the lowcostthe business is another. And, in normal conditions, it would be very interesting. After all, the twentieth century has taught us that every euro invested in space It is a euro invested in improving the conditions of this planet. Historically, The return of investment is huge And that has been one of the great levers that have allowed us to continue investing in it. However, as the years go by and we see that the business career derives quickly in A power struggleit is worth asking if the transfer of knowledge will remain so effective. If, in one way or another, the privatization of space will also be the privatization of all the good we can learn from it. Image | Club of the Future In Xataka | If the space industry wants to democratize tourism, it must overcome several challenges. Like space smells good

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