Jeff Bezos to Travel to Space Today Aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard 405f5m How To Watch Livestream

The New Shepard rocket will blast off at around 6:30pm IST today from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility in Texas. 6d4963

By Jasmin Jose | Updated: 20 July 2021 14:33 IST

Jeff Bezos to Travel to Space Today Aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard: How To Watch Livestream

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Bezos will be ed by his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen

Highlights

New Shepard is a fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo
New Shepard cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft
Jeff Bezos’ flight comes nine days after Richard Branson’s

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Jeff Bezos is all set to blast off aboard his aerospace company Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle for a suborbital flight today (July 20). The space flight will comprise a history-making all-civilian crew. The launch of the 11-minute journey to space is planned from a desert site in West Texas, US. If all goes as planned, New Shepard will blast off at around 6:30pm IST from Blue Origin's Launch Site One facility located around 20 miles (32km) outside Van Horn in Texas, US. Bezos' space trip comes nine days after Richard Branson's space voyage aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity.

Jeff Bezos' space flight: How to watch live 2a592l

Blue Origin announced on its Twitter handle that viewers can tune into the live broadcast from the Blue Origin website or its YouTube channel. The livestreaming will start at 6:30am CDT, or 5pm IST for viewers in India. You can also watch the launch below:

'Not Really Nervous': Billionaire Bezos Girds for Inaugural Space Flight

New Shepard is a 60-foot-tall (18.3m) and fully autonomous rocket-and-capsule combo that cannot be piloted from inside the spacecraft. The spaceflight company has tweeted an image of the crew after the completion of their training.

Our astronauts have completed training and are a go for launch. #NSFirstHumanFlight pic.twitter.com/rzkQgqVaB6
— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) July 19, 2021

did a round of televised interviews ahead of the launch. "People keep asking if I'm nervous. I'm not really nervous, I'm excited. I'm curious. I want to know what we're going to learn," Bezos said.

Bezos will be ed by his younger brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old Wally Funk, and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen. Jeff Bezos had reffered to Mark Bezos as his “best friend” on his Daemen became the last member to the crew as the initial auction winner, whose name had not been made public, dropped out due to unspecified "scheduling conflicts.” According to Blue Origin, his addition means that the flight is set to include the oldest and the youngest person ever to go to space.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to Make History With Unpiloted Civilian Space Flight

Jeff Bezos' flight comes nine days after the British billionaire businessman pioneering suborbital flight from New Mexico. Bezos is due to fly higher — 62 miles (100km) for Blue Origin compared to 53 miles (86km) for Virgin Galactic.

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