Capsule, that goes down, American reusable New Shepard rocket on Wednesday after a suborbital commercial flight with a crew in six tourists successfully landed at Texas West, reported Blue Origin Development Company.
The NS-36 crew included a Kazakhstan media, which became the first Kazakhstan, space; The businessman in the field of franchising Jeff Eljin, engineer and researcher Dr. Clint Kelly III, entrepreneur and researcher Aaron Newman, Investor Vitaliy Ostrovsky, as well as one unnamed participant, who wished to remain anonymous.
The launch of New Shepard was made from the Corn Ranch starting ground near Van Gorn 09:41 By the time of the Eastern coast of the United States (about 16:41 outside Kyiv). The flight lasted close 11 minutes.
Multiple New Shepard rocket, created for commercial tourist flights on the space of space, consists of a single-stage 18-meter carrier and a trigger capsule, six people. It is equipped with an emergency rescue system and parachutes.
After a vertical acceleration duration 110 seconds from the carrier separate the trigger, which by inertia is gaining height approximately to 105 km, that is a little above the Karman's line. Total capsule with space tourists is at the highest flight point for about three minutes.
Karman's line - height above sea level, which is conventionally considered the boundary between the atmosphere of the Earth and the cosmos. According to the definition of the International Aviation Federation (Fai), The line is located at a height 100 km. In this regard, capsule passengers can claim the title of astronauts, without making an orbital flight.
After descent, the capsule made a soft landing using a parachute system. And the NS-5 rocket launcher performed independent descent and vertical landing with the help of a marching engine in the area of the starting ground.
The cost of flight for space tourists on New Shepard is estimated in $500 thousand.
Given the current launch within the New Shepard program with 2021 The year has already been done 16 successful suborbital missions with crew, on the border between the atmosphere of the Earth and the cosmos visited 80 tourists.
As reported on Blue Origin site, Vitaliy Ostrovsky is a Ukrainian businessman, investor in hotel business and real estate, System analyst, Web developer and a continuous traveler. He lived in over the last decade 100 countries on all continents, Traveling from the Polar Circle to Antarctica Ice. It applies a systematic approach to business and technology, Simultaneously creating and investing in a hotel business and real estate.
Source: https://space.com.ua