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Jeff Bezos’ space tourism company Blue Origin is taking off tomorrow for its first crewed flight in over two years.The company put its space tourism flights temporarily on hold in September of 2022 after a thermo-structural failure of the engine nozzle that triggered the Crew Capsule escape system. That issue was initially attributed to a rocket booster failiure.Sunday’s flight with be the seventh human flight for the New Shepard program at Blue Origin and the 25th for the company. Called NS-25, the flight with lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:30 am CST, presuming everything goes according to plan. Blue Origin will also webcast the takeoff on its website starting 40 minutes before takeoff.Sunday’s crew includes Ed Dwight, who was chosen by John F Kennedy to train to potentially be NASA’s first black Astronaut in 1961 but never made it to space; Mason Angel, founder of Industrious Ventures; Sylvian Chiron, founder of Brasserie Mont Blanc, one of the largest craft breweries in France; software engineer and entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess; retired CPA Carol Schaller; and co-founder of Preserve Life Corp, Gopi Thorakura.
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After the incident in 2022 Blue Origin was required to carry out 21 corrective actions.
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