Blue Origin has completed a successful suborbital flight as part of its space tourism program. The launch was made in X.
The NS-32 mission took off from the private Launch Site One spaceport in Texas at 09:30 EST. The flight lasted about 11 minutes, during which the capsule with tourists crossed the Kármán line - the conditional boundary of space at an altitude of 100 km - and returned safely to Earth using a parachute system.
There were six participants on board: Texas teacher Aimee Medina Jorge, radiologist Gretchen Green, former Panamanian diplomat and businessman Jaime Aleman, American entrepreneur Paul Jerris, New Zealand engineer and head of Kea Aerospace Mark Rockett, and Canadian mountaineer Jesse Williams.
The launch was the 12th manned flight in the New Shepard program and the 32nd mission in the series. Blue Origin is targeting the suborbital tourism market, competing with Virgin Galactic, which charges $600,000 per seat. The exact price of a ticket for New Shepard has not yet been revealed.