“I’ve been working at Blue on the new Shepard program specifically for the past eight years,” she said. Powers, the Blue Origin vice president who will be flying on Wednesday, also responded to the safety allegations in an interview with CNN’s Erica Hill on Monday, saying the reports did not give her pause. But the company has repeatedly stated that safety is its top priority. It also claimed that the company has created an unsafe environment and many of the essay’s authors “say they would not fly on a Blue Origin vehicle.” Much of the current criticism also centers on the leadership style of Blue Origin’s CEO Bob Smith, who Bezos installed to run the company’s day-to-day operations in 2017.īlue Origin did not respond to requests for comment about the safety allegations. Blue Originīut Shatner’s flight comes amid a wave of headlines that paint a picture of internal turmoil at Blue Origin, including several exits from the among senior-level staff in the wake of the company losing a key NASA contract to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.Ī group of 21 current and former employees also co-signed an essay alleging that Blue Origin has a “dehumanizing” workplace environment that’s rife with sexism. The Blue Origin capsule, with Shatner inside, waits for recovery crews after landing in the Texas desert. It could be a line of business that helps to fund Blue Origin’s other, more ambitious space projects, which include developing a 300-foot-tall rocket powerful enough to blast satellites into orbit and a lunar lander.
Shatner’s flight marked the second of what Blue Origin hopes will be many space tourism launches, carrying wealthy customers and thrill seekers to the edge of space. Shanter’s new record as the oldest person to fly to space one-ups the record set just three months ago by 82-year-old Wally Funk, who was a former astronaut trainee but was previously denied the opportunity to fly before she joined Bezos on his July flight.
Upon descent, a plume of parachutes then fanned out above the capsule to slow its descent, taking it from more than 200 miles per hour to less than 20 in just a few minutes. Shatner and his fellow passengers were expected to experience up to 5.5 Gs - which feels like five times their body weight pressing onto their chests - during their 2,000-plus mile-per-hour journey. At 9:51 am central time, the rocket fired up its engines and roared past the speed of sound, vaulting the capsule up past the Karman Line, which, at 62 miles high, is one line used to demarcate the beginning of outer space.
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The group strapped into a capsule that sits atop the 60-foot-tall New Shepard rocket Wednesday morning after a series of wind-related delays. New Shepard’s flight lasted just ten minutes from takeoff to landing, and gave the passengers about three minutes of weightlessness. Their trip did not go exactly as the interplanetary jaunts Shatner captained during his acting career. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now.” “What you have given me is the most profound experience, I am so filled with emotion, just extraordinary,” a visibly overcome Shatner told Bezos, immediately after emerging from the capsule. The Blue Origin rocket, with actor William Shatner onboard, lifts off from the launch pad.
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