We are facing back so that the Spanish adventurer and mountaineer, Jesús Calleja, becomes the third Spaniard to climb to space with five other crew members in the Blue Shepard ship owned by Blue Origin, one of the multiple Jeff Bezos Bezo companies for being the founder of Amazon.
As today it is known practically until the last corner of the planet Earth, companies are looking for “new experiences” to exploit, and it seems that the address that some are taking is no less than offering commercial flights to space.
Blue Origin is one of these companies that is promoting this trend, having overcome the main obstacle, how expensive these flights are. Until now, sending people who were not astronauts out of orbit was something crazy, because each takeoff cost millions, however, both the company of Bezos and others, for example, Space X of Elon Musk They have developed “recycling ships” that greatly reduce spending.
In the case of the ship that will take Calleja to space, it is known as New Shepard NS-30, A designed rocket for suborbital space tourism and scientific research. This consists of two parts, a Capsule full of windows for crew at the top and a propeller that returns to Earth autonomously.
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The key is that these Propulsors, detach from the ship when they enter orbit, and return to the base intact and can be reused in another takeoff, in a similar way to what the Musk’s Starship ship recently achieved. The flight itself lasts more than 20 minutes, and it is that once they pass The line of karm, which marks the space limit, the ship will make a free flight between three and four minutes in the space that will allow Spanish to experience microgravity and enjoy the panoramic views of the Earth.
The New Shepard NS-30 reaches an altitude of more than 100 km Thanks to the BE-3 engine, developed by Blue Origin, which works with liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, providing a powerful and efficient thrust.
It will be during this afternoon that the takeoff can be followed from 15:45 in Telecinco where Jesús Calleja will become the first Spanish not astronaut to travel to space and in the first presenter to make television outside the planet Earth.
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