Michael Strahan and crew launch to space aboard Blue Origin NS-19
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Speaker 1: 7 6 5, 4 engine start two, one
Speaker 2: Cole has confirmed new shepherd has cleared the tower and is on its way to space. We can hear it here from the desk. [00:00:30] If you're falling along with us, you can see on the lower left side of your screen, that were gaining speed. As new shepherd lifts off towards space with a full capsule of six humans for the very first time, Noticing that altitude bar also on the bottom of screen, we are climbing fast. [00:01:00] We punched through max Q. That is the point where the aerodynamic stress on the new shepherd booster is at its maximum. Our original six are getting the ride of their lives right now. [00:01:30] Look at that beautiful de three engine in action Coming up next here in under a minute is gonna be main engine cutoff, where we cut off that B E three, and you'll be able to visually see that on the screen here shortly [00:02:00] And there [00:02:30] we see it. Main engine cutoff of the B E three. [00:03:00] All right. We see the CC RCS thrusters firing and we have confirmed separation. All right. So capsule booster, separated Capcom cites will momentarily cue the astronauts to unbuckle their harnesses and start floating around the capsule. They are in zero G. They have practiced for this and now it's really happening.
Speaker 3: [00:03:30] Oh, check this out. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. I got a ball. I never like this [00:04:00] mission, Nike. All right. Seated. [00:04:30] Original the original
Speaker 4: One minute warning. One minute warning.
Speaker 2: Well, huge congratulations to [00:05:00] all six crew. They have crossed that Carmen line and they be came official astronauts outstanding. As you can see, we have two distinct vehicles in the screen. Now, both the crew capsule and the booster are descending. It was so amazing to hear from such an excited crew that just love hearing their real reactions real time. It is just awesome that energy walking up the tower definitely translated into space. [00:05:30] Well, as you can see, the forward fins [00:06:00] on the new shepherd booster have deployed. That booster is on its way back to earth first. So those fins, when they deploy, they help to shift that center of pressure so that we have just the right aerodynamic characteristics that we want for that racket to come in in a very stable way. [00:07:00] Engine restart on that. B3 confirmed how
Speaker 5: The hear that, that booster
Speaker 2: [00:07:30] And booster touchdown. Welcome back new shepherd. Thank you so much again for joining us for our third human flight. We've just landed the booster. The show is not over here. We see our crew capsule on final descent back to the west Texas desert. Let's [00:08:00] wait for that. Now Look at that. Boost are on the pad, all in a day's work for the workhorse of this operation. All right. And there go the drug parachutes. That's a beautiful site slowing down the capsule [00:08:30] And there we go. The drugs lifting out the main parachutes looks like we have three beautiful parachutes there and they're configuration and the release, the disre. There we go. Three beautiful main parachutes. And on your screen, you're seeing that that velocity and altitude dropping. [00:09:00] So while these parachutes are obviously essential in providing a gentle touchdown for the crew capsule, new shepherd also has an innovative retro thrust system. Uh, so that's on the bottom of the capsule and that will make touchdown even smoother for the astronauts flying today.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Look at that. Where's my phone. I'm gonna take picture. [00:09:30] We did it. We did it shadow. I can see the shoot.
Speaker 2: We can hear audio from a very excited crew on their way back to earth. [00:10:00] What a beautiful day in west Texas, What a great view through those big windows there,
Speaker 6: Stand by touchdown. Stand by touchdown.
Speaker 2: So keep in mind here. There we go. Retro thrust and touchdown. All right. That is hearing all around from the crew. [00:10:30] I think it is safe to say that the word touchdown has a new meaning from Michael stray today, Jack, you are right [00:11:00] there. Have it looking like a completely successful third human flight, that audio from the crew. So exciting. We also, if you couldn't hear it from the audio, we just double confirmed with mission control that all six astronauts have landed back safely and our doing great. So at this point, our team is gonna those landing safety operations to recover our astronauts [00:11:30] from the crew capsule will be on the ground at the landing site to follow the action.
