Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Space Company Embarks on All-Female Crew Tour to Space
Billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, on Monday, transported an all-female and star-studded crew to space in a tour that lasted for 10 minutes.
This was Blue Origin’s 11th human flight, NS-31, which lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas on April 14.
The crew were former NASA rocket scientist, entrepreneur, and global STEM advocate Aisha Bowe; Amanda is a bioastronautics research scientist, Amanda Nguyễn; award-winning journalist, and co-host of CBS Mornings, Gayle King.
The six female participants also include popular artist Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and; Emmy Award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author and pilot, Lauren Sánchez.
According to statistics put out by the space company, the New Shepard capsule hit 346,802 feet above ground level (AGL) and 350,449 above mean sea level (MSL), translating to 106 kilometres and 107 kilometres, respectively.
Daily Mail reported that the women flew nearly 66 miles into space, elevating just above the Kármán Line, considered the boundary of the atmosphere and outer space, before landing back in the West Texas desert, as scheduled.
The capsule landed precisely at 8:40:21 a.m. CDT (9:40 a.m. ET) with a mission elapsed time duration of 10 min 21 seconds.
Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini
