Blue Origin Sets A Date For Its Next Flight To Launch People And Experiments Into Space *

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture says its next suborbital spaceflight is set for Aug. 29, with a space researcher and a college senior among the mission's six spacefliers.

Next week's launch of a reusable New Shepard rocket ship from Blue Origin's Launch Site One in West Texas will mark the company's eighth crewed mission, and boost its roll call of suborbital space travelers to 43.

The launch window will open at 8 a.m. CT (6 a.m. PT) on the appointed day, and live coverage of the mission will be streamed via Blue Origin's website starting at T-minus 40 minutes.

New Shepard's crewed flights resumed in May , more than a year and a half after the failure of an uncrewed mission in 2022 led to a months-long investigation of the incident and a redesign of spacecraft components.

The flight profile for NS-26 is expected to follow the pattern set during Blue Origin's previous suborbital space missions. New Shepard's hydrogen-fueled booster launches the autonomously controlled crew capsule from Blue Origin's launch pad — and after stage separation, the booster flies itself back to a landing pad near the launch tower.

Meanwhile, the capsule continues to rise above the 100-kilometer Karman Line, giving crew members a few minutes of weightlessness and a picture-window view of earthly terrain beneath the black sky of space. At the end of the mission, the capsule unfurls its parachutes to ease the crew's touchdown amid the rangelands of West Texas. The trip typically takes a little more than 10 minutes from launch to landing.

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