Blue Origin Completes Tenth Crewed Suborbital Flight

Blue Origin successfully conducted its tenth crewed suborbital flight from Launch Site One in West Texas on February 25. The New Shepard rocket, carrying six passengers, launched at 10:50 AM EST (18:50 Moscow time). The capsule reached a height of 105 km before making a parachute-assisted landing approximately 10 minutes later. The flight, designated NS-30, included venture capitalist Lane Bess (making his second New Shepard flight), Spanish television host Jesus Calleja, entrepreneur and physicist Elain Chia Haya, productive endocrinologist Richard Scott, hedge fund partner Tushar Shah, and one astronaut whose name remains undisclosed but whose spacesuit displayed the Wilson family name. The cost of a ticket for space tourists on New Shepard is currently estimated at $500,000. The NS-5 rocket booster executed an autonomous launch and vertical landing at the launch site. A 90-year-old individual has now traveled to space.