Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket Launches NS -26 Mission from Texas

[Music] 7 6 5 4 just start 2 [Music] 1 sh clear the tower and There She Goes new shepher has cleared the tower on its way to space with its crew of six they are screaming up towards the Carmen line you can see the speedometer on your bottom left there as well as the altimeter and we're going to follow along with the flight on the left side of your screen with those Milestones first one coming up here is Max Q [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Max Q has been confirmed maximum Dynamic pressure it's one of the forces on the vehicle between the atmosphere and the speed are at their are maximum we've punched right through it as well as punched through that layer of clouds the vehicle continues on its upward Ascent towards space if you are just joining us we've had a clean liftoff of new Shepard's 26th flight in this program we are witnessing the 8th human space flight of new Shepard We Have astronauts 38- 43 on the vehicle on its way to space our next Milestone here is main engine cutoff and what we'll witness is the speed will start to come down but the uh the Exel excuse me the the altitude will continue to go up when the speed hits zero means we have hit apigy and Jackie I think one of the other cool part of this program is that we slow you see that kind of slight little hot dog roll we got going on of the rocket we just want to give what it's really is just to give the astronauts each 360° view as they're going up which is so cool all right main engine cut off and separation have been confirmed and Jackie this is when our our astronauts are feeling zero Dr Rob furl is going to start his his experiments up there in the cabin hopefully after a little time to look out the window pre experimentation I would totally steal at least a a couple of looks out of the big gorgeous windows and again we're coming up on apigy you see that the speed is reducing when it hits zero that's when we've hit that is when we've hit apig at this point we are well over the kmen line about 328,000 or 100 K 328,000 ft or 100 km up and there it is AP about 340,000 ft Jackie can you imagine the view I was talking about being jealous of your Astronaut training but I'm more jealous of them right now no they're unbuckled at the moment they are turning their sumers salts they are soaking it in they are you know we're witnessing six people having their minds blown right now as we as we speak but the booster is heading on down and it will beat the the capsule back to Earth the booster of course has a controlled landing on a landing pad just 2 miles north of where it's taken off from the capsule less aerodynamically shaped will uh will land second under three parachutes uh in our uh Landing Zone in our Valley in West Texas so far a nominal flight of our 2 mission to space and back of the new sheeper vehicle plus our eth human space flight congratulations truly to all six of our astronauts today oh I'm sorry our crew who officially have become astronauts massive congratulations over the Carmen line Phoenix report status 43 Phoenix report status Phoenix uh four five and six are in hey tell every I'll be all heard all six astronauts are back in their seat and the booster is screaming on home yeah as we mentioned that booster is going to return to Earth a lot faster than the capsule because of the aerodynamic nature of the crew capsule is coming back to the clouds that's a sweet view of the booster as it's coming back through the atmosphere here so we see the drag brakes have been deployed there's the Rel light of that be3 engine that gorgeous hover above the landing pad and booster touchdown a successful touchdown of the booster for the NS 26 Mission always a sight to see always a sight to see really I mean it's been going thousands of miles per hour and then it comes in landing you see it just kind of hovers there at 5 miles an hour it's such a smooth descent and it's and landing and to as as a reminder to people this is so critical to the reusability because the the smoother The Landing the less you jostle the rocket the less you have to refurbish the rocket the more you can more uses you can get out of the rocket absolutely and some some really cool things here right like those fins you were talking about earlier our lessons learned with guiding this vehicle back are going to be applied to our next big vehicle new Glenn so again just so many Lessons Learned From This booster every single Mission every single Mission now the the crew capsule is obviously also coming back down to land here uh we are going to have first the drug parachutes that come out those are kind of like the side parachutes then we're going to see the mains they will reath so they're going to kind of go out just a little bit and then they Folly inflate and talking about cutting speed you can already see the speed on the the on the the screen there it comes in at just like 15 16 miles an hour for nice there she is and again these parachutes both the drugs and the mains are essential in providing a gentle touchdown for the capsule but as we get closer to the ground here you're going to see a retro thrust system on the base of the capsule um which does kick up a bit of West Texas dust but it makes for an even smoother touchdown than again you know like you said the already slow speed that the capsule is descending at now we're just 400 feet away from touchdown again stay tuned for that retro thrust system here and crew capsule touchdown welcome home to the newest six astronauts the blue steel team once more what appears to be a completely smooth flight for new Shephard uh our booster touching down at the at the landing pad and a soft Landing for our latest crew just a beautiful flight up and back I mean that is just one of the the the cleanest flights I've seen from this rocket but but behind every rocket is an extraordinary team so a big shout out to the entire new Shephard program what a beautiful flight today and another congratulations to the six newest astronauts what a day it has been now our capsule uh recovery team is currently going to be driving out to the Convoy to meet the capsule they're going to Safe the the capsule and get ready to open the hatch and welcome our astronauts back home