A new space tourism trip organized by the Blue Origin company, which owns businessman Jeff Bezos, will be launched this morning from West Texas with six people inside.
The New Shepard rocket is scheduled to take off from the company's launch site 1 today at 13.30 GMT; 8:30 a.m. local time in Texas).
The mission is known as NS-20, because it will be the 20th space flight of a New Shepard vehicle. But it will be only Blue Origin's fourth manned space flight, after three manned flights in 2021.
Due to strong winds predicted during launch and recovery operations on Tuesday, March 29 and Wednesday, March 30, the New Shepard Mission Operations Team made the decision to move the NS-20 launch to today.
Initially scheduled for the 23rd, the release was postponed to this week, due to the casualty caused by one of its six crew members, comedic actor Pete Davidson.
The company later announced that the sixth crew member to replace Davidson on New Shepard's twentieth mission will be Gary Lai, the company's own architect and who designed the space rocket, who joined the previously announced team.
They are businessman Marty Allen; philanthropic couple Sharon Hagle and Marc Hagle; teacher and entrepreneur Jim Kitchen; and George Nield, president of Commercial Space Technologies, LLC.
Nield has a long history in the field of space flight, previously serving as associate administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transport and manager of the Office of Flight Integration for NASA's Space Shuttle program.
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