The NS-30 mission of Blue Origin, founded by Jeff Bezos, took away successfully from Texas this morning to put in the limits of the space a crew of five people, which include the Spanish explorer and presenter, Jesús Calleja.
The New Shepard rocket took off from Van Horn (Texas) at 9:50 local time (15:50 GMT) Way of the Kármán line, considered internationally “the border of the space”, which reached three minutes later.
The mountaineer and presenter Jesús Calleja became the first Spanish space tourist to cross the space limit and enjoy zero gravity moments before descending in the capsule to the Texan desert.
Calleja was accompanied by Entrepreneur and Physics Elaine Chia Hyde, investor Lane Bess, the entrepreneur Tushar Shah and Dr. Richard Scott.
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New Shepard achieves successful landing
The rocket landed vertically eight minutes after takeoff to be used again, while the capsule with astronauts began its descent and deceleration with parachutes shortly after.
The landing occurred ten minutes after the takeoff successfully.
Blue Origin has launched several space tourism missions with a vertical take -off and landing system, which briefly reaches the external limits of the atmosphere.
The rocket passes three times the gravity of the earth at zero gravity in just a few minutes and thanks to several large windows in the capsule, space tourists have a unique view of the earth’s sphere.
With EFE information
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