Watch Blue Origin launch ‘Space Gal’ Emily Calandrelli, 5 others on tourism flight Nov. 22
Blue Origin will launch its ninth space tourism flight on Friday morning (Nov. 22).
The mission — known as NS-28, because it will be the 28th launch overall of Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle — is scheduled to lift off from the company’s West Texas spaceport during a window that opens at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local time in Texas).
The flight will last a little more than 10 minutes from liftoff to the soft parachute landing of the New Shepard crew capsule.
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In that time, the crew aboard NS-28 will experience several minutes of weightlessness while being treated to views of Earth against the blackness of space.
The six crewmembers for NS-28, Blue Origin’s next suborbital space tourism mission. (Image credit: Blue Origin)
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The six-person NS-28 crew includes Emily Calandrelli, who’s known as “The Space Gal.” Calandrelli is an MIT-educated engineer, best-selling author and science communicator who hosted the Netflix show “Emily’s Wonder Lab,” as well as “Emily’s Science Lab” on YouTube. She’ll fly as a Citizen Astronaut Program (CAP) Ambassador for the nonprofit organization Space For Humanity.
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Joining Calandrelli on New Shepard are repeat Blue Origin customers Marc and Sharon Hagle, a married couple who also flew on the NS-20 in March 2022, James (J.D.) Russell, Henry (Hank) Wolfond, and Austin Litteral, who won his seat in a corporate-sponsored giveaway.