Its most immediate challenge has concerned accusations that the company’s work culture allowed harassment and sexist behavior. “I was trying to smile but my jaw was pushed back in my head,” he said. Boshuizen, talking to reporters after the flight, likened the crew’s entry into space to a stone hitting the surface of a lake. The whole trip lasted 10 minutes, 17 seconds, and gave the four passengers about four minutes of weightlessness. Central time, ascending nearly as fast as a speeding bullet at 2,235 miles per hour and sending the crew some 65.8 miles high. But he closed the hatch door before leaving the pad, sending the crew on their journey. Bezos, dressed in a flight suit like the one he wore in July, would join them in flying to space. Bezos and company employees.įor a moment, it appeared Mr. The quartet was driven in electric pickup trucks to Blue Origin’s launchpad, roughly an hour before liftoff, flanked by Mr. The launch Wednesday morning was pushed back by roughly an hour by two pauses to the launch countdown - caused in part by extra checks to the spacecraft and winds near its launchpad. Shatner shared the capsule on Wednesday with three other passengers: Audrey Powers, a Blue Origin vice president who oversees New Shepard operations, and two paying customers: Chris Boshuizen, a co-founder of the Earth-observation company Planet Labs, and Glen de Vries, a co-founder of a company that builds software for clinical researchers. Bezos held forth from a stage, rousing condemnation from critics of the vast company he founded as he thanked Amazon’s employees and customers for making it possible for him to finance his private space venture. Shatner some space, but it was a sharp contrast to his appearance after his own brief spaceflight in July, when he was aboard the same spacecraft. Bezos, who has said he was inspired by “Star Trek” as a boy, listened, still as a statue. And this is now the commercial, everybody - it would be so important for everybody to have that experience. It’s so - so much larger than me and life. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now. I just - it’s extraordinary, extraordinary. I’m so filled with emotion about what just happened. What you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. And there is - is there, death? I don’t know - was that death, is that the way death is? Whoop, and it’s gone. And it’s just - there is Mother Earth, comfort. And you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness and you look down, there’s the blue down there and the black up there. And then suddenly, you shoot through it all of the sudden as though you’re whipping a sheet off you when you’re asleep. The covering of blue is - this sheet, this blanket, this comforter, this comforter of blue that we have around, we think, “Oh, it’s blue sky. ![]() I mean, you know, the little things - but to see the blue color whip by, and now you’re staring into blackness, that’s the thing. Transcript William Shatner Is Brought to Tears Describing His Trip to Space The actor who played Captain Kirk in “Star Trek” told Jeff Bezos his visit to the edge of space in the Blue Origin rocket was the most profound experience he could imagine. The newest astronauts, Audrey Powers, William Shatner our customers, Glen de Vries and Chris Boshuizen. Stand by touchdown.” “Stand by touchdown.” And the capsule touched down. Welcome to space, the newest astronauts on board our crew capsule. And there they are, over 328,000 feet, over 100 kilometers. “T-minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 - command engines start - 2, 1.” “The rocket is climbing towards an altitude, we’re aiming just over the Kármán line, the internationally recognized line of space of 100 kilometers that is about 328,000 feet, and a gorgeous view down the rocket. The “Star Trek” star traveled to space with three other passengers on a mission that lasted about 10 minutes. Transcript William Shatner Blasts off to Space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Rocket At 90 years old, the actor William Shatner became the oldest person to travel to space and cross the Kármán line.
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