[China News Service]Blue Origin’s “New Shepard” aircraft completed its first manned space test flight in Texas on the 20th local time. Company founder and former CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, accompanied him.
US Consumer News and Business Channel reported that at 8:12 local time on the 20th, the “New Shepard” aircraft lifted off from Blue Origin’s launch site in western Texas. The New York Times reported that the aircraft separated from the launch vehicle at an altitude of approximately 76 kilometers and continued to fly upwards, crossing the “Carmen Line” to reach an altitude of 107 kilometers. People usually regard the “Kamen Line” at an altitude of 100 kilometers as the boundary between space and the Earth’s atmosphere.
CBS reported that passengers experienced weightlessness for about 3 minutes. They unfastened their seat belts, hovered in the aircraft, and watched the space scenery through the windows. Subsequently, the aircraft began to land and returned to the ground under the cushion of a parachute. The entire flight lasted about 10 minutes and 10 seconds.
The “New Shepard” aircraft carried a total of 4 passengers into space on the same day. In addition to Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, former American female pilot Wally Fink, and Blue Origin The first paying space tourist, Dutch man Oliver Demen. Fink and Demen became the oldest and youngest people in space at the ages of 82 and 18, respectively.

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