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Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT) from West Texas.
Update for July 20, 1 pm ET: Blue Origin has successfully launched its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and three other civilians into space on the first crewed flight of the New Shepard spacecraft. See photos, videos and an account of the launch in our wrap story here.
Blue Origin will attempt an historic first crewed spaceflight Tuesday (July 20), as the company attempts to launch its billionaire founder Jeff Bezos and a crew of three to kick-start a space tourist program for those who ve always wanted to fly in space.
If all goes to plan, the company s New Shepard rocket and capsule will take off for an 11-minute journey, launching and landing outside Van Horn, Texas at Blue Origin facilities, dubbed Launch Site One. The rocket will carry the spacecraft on a suborbital path before separating, allowing the crew to descend in their capsule under parachutes for a ground landing. Liftoff is set for 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT).
A mural painted on a vacant building in Van Horn, Texas, features Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark, who are due to ride Blue Origin’s suborbital spaceship on Tuesday. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle)
The bad news for Van Horn is that it’s taken a decade longer than expected for Blue Origin’s space boom to come to town. But the good news is that the economic impact is arguably 10 times as great.
Blue Origin’s 15-year-old environmental assessment, which was the subject of the Federal Aviation Administration hearing I attended in 2006, estimated that 20 to 35 full-time employees would be working at the company’s suborbital launch site a half-hour drive north of Van Horn.
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Time: Liftoff scheduled for 8 a.m. Houston time
On TV: Watch pre-coverage of the launch on KHOU 11 News starting at 6 a.m.
Online stream: Watch streaming coverage live on KHOU.com or KHOU 11 News YouTube and Facebook page. Blue Origin will have coverage of the mission beginning at 6:30 a.m.
What to expect
The four-person crew s trip will last 11 minutes from liftoff to landing, according to Blue Origin. New Shepard will launch from a remote location in West Texas. Live coverage of the event will begin at 6:30 a.m.
Liftoff for the rocket and capsule is scheduled for 8 a.m. At around 75 kilometers or 250,000 feet up, the two separate and continue their ascent.