(Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin unveiled the identities of the next six individuals who will fly to suborbital. In many cases, these payloads expose students as young as elementary school to STEM skills like coding, environmental testing and CAD design often not taught until college.Īmong the NS-23 payloads are tens of thousands of postcards from Blue Origin’s nonprofit, Club for the Future, whose Postcards to Space program gives people across the world access to space on New Shepard. Blue Origin announced the NS-22 crew of space tourists on July 22, 2022.
This is double the number of education-focused payloads from previous payload flight manifests. CLPS allows rapid acquisition of lunar delivery services for payloads that advance capabilities for science, exploration, or. 18, 2019, as taking part in NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services or CLPS initiative. Blue Origin was one of five companies announced on Nov. Twenty-four payloads are from K-12 schools, universities and STEM-focused organizations, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR), and SHAD Canada STEM Foundation, among others. Artists concept of a Blue Origin commercial lunar lander on the Moon. Two of the payloads will fly on the exterior of the New Shepard booster for ambient exposure to the space environment, while 18 of the payloads on this flight are funded by NASA, primarily by the Flight Opportunities program. This Blue Origin mission brings the total number of commercial payloads flown on the vehicle to more than 150. On August 31, New Shepard’s 23rd mission, a dedicated payloads flight, will fly 36 payloads from academia, research institutions and students across the globe - the launch window opens at 8:30 a.m., CDT / 13:30 UTC, from Launch Site One in West Texas. The company will advise when a new launch window opportunity is available.
Weather has proven to be the undoing of the Blue Origin NS-23 launch, scheduled for today, August 31, in West Texas. Photo of the New Shepard crew capsule descending under parachutes in the West Texas desert on Janu(NS-10).
0 kommentar(er)
