Blue Origin • Jeff Bezos • Space • New Shepard • Wally Funk

 Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and capsule stand atop the company's Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas ahead of a planned launch of founder Jeff Bezos and three others on July 20, 2021.  (Image credit: Blue Origin)

Blue Origin has cleared its New Shepard rocket and spacecraft to launch the company's first astronaut flight, NS-16, a mission that will carry billionaire Jeff Bezos and three others to suborbital space and back on Tuesday, July 20. Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT). 

"The vehicle is ready to fly," said Chris Yeager, Blue Origin's chief engineer for New Shepard, in a prelaunch press conference. There are no technical issues with the spacecraft, he added. 

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Blue Origin expects a slight chance of rain early on launch day, but the weather looks like it will clear in time for the planned launch. The company will begin its launch day webcast at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT). You can watch that on this page, on Space.com here and via BlueOrigin.com.

Blue Origin's upcoming launch, which it has called the First Human Flight, will launch Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, Mercury 13 aviation pioneer Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemon to an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers), where they will experience 3-4 minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth in their space capsule. They will land in the West Texas desert to be retrieved by a recovery team. 

The passengers are staying in Blue Origin's "astronaut village," where they are undergoing 14 hours of preflight training over two days to prepare themselves for the spaceflight. 

(Image credit: Blue Origin)
 

BLUE ORIGIN PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE

Update: The press conference has ended. You can see it in full above.

Blue Origin's prelaunch press conference for its July 20 First Human Flight is live now. You can watch it in the window above, here on Space.com, here at BlueOrigin.com and here on YouTube. -- Tariq Malik, Editor-in-Chief


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