Topic: [Discuss] Blue Origin New Shepard: Mission 22
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 48836 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-22-2022 02:10 PM
Please use this topic to discuss Blue Origin's New Shepard 22 (NS-22) suborbital crewed mission and its crew, including: Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O’Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry and Steve Young.
onesmallstep Member
Posts: 1353 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
posted 08-01-2022 09:43 AM
Let's not forget Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, Capt. USN (ret.), one of the first six women NASA astronauts, who logged three Shuttle flights and was the first woman (ahead of Vanessa O'Brien by five days) to reach Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench in June 2020, and can rightly claim to have reached both extremes on and off the earth.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 48836 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-01-2022 09:47 AM
Vanessa O'Brien's distinction, at least as it is being promoted by Blue Origin, is having reached the extremes on land, sea, and air (space).
Vanessa will become the first woman to reach the Earth's highest peak (Mt. Everest), its deepest (Challenger Deep), and cross the Kármán line.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 48836 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-04-2022 08:56 AM
Blue Origin video
New Shepard's 22nd mission to space.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 48836 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 08-04-2022 09:47 AM
The crew nickname was "Titanium Feather." Titanium is the 22nd element on the Periodic table and this was the 22nd mission for New Shepard.
The crew capsule reached an apogee of 347,585 ft AGL / 351,232 ft MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
The booster reached an apogee of 347,219 ft AGL / 350,866 ft MSL (106 km AGL / 107 km MSL).
Official launch time was 8:56:07 AM CDT / 13:56:07 UTC. Capsule landing occurred at 9:06:27 AM CDT / 14:06:27 UTC.
The mission elapsed time was 10 min 20 sec; the max ascent velocity was 2,239 mph / 3,603 km/h.
23rd consecutive successful crew capsule landing (every flight in the program, including a pad escape test in 2012); eighth consecutive booster landing for this vehicle.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 48836 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 07-22-2022 02:10 PM
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