WASHINGTON, D.C. – Blue Origin is set to fly adventurers to the final frontier on Sunday for the first time in nearly two years, renewing competition in the space tourism market after a rocket mishap put its crewed operations on hold.
Six people, including Black sculptor and former Air Force pilot Ed Dwight, who was controversially spurned by NASA's astronaut corps in the 1960s, will blast off at around 8:30 am local time from the company's Launch Site One base in west Texas.Dwight — at 90 years, eight months and 10 days — is set to become the oldest person to go to space, narrowly pipping Star Trek actor William Shatner, who was almost two months younger when he launched with Blue Origin in 2021.
A federal investigation revealed an overheating engine nozzle was at fault.Blue Origin took corrective steps and carried out a successful uncrewed launch in December 2023, paving the way for Sunday's mission.Bezos himself was on the program's first-ever crewed flight in 2021.A few months later, Shatner blurred the lines between science fiction and reality when he became the world's oldest-ever astronaut, decades after he first played a space traveler.
Origin To Fly Thrill-Seekers To Space
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