Jeff Bezos ready to fly in space Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man and founder of Amazon, is ready to fly into space. His company Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will fly on Tuesday with a total of four people, including Bezos. Bezos’s team will go even further than Richard Branson’s team, which went to space last week. The most important thing in this journey of Bezos is his rocket, which can be completely reused. Undoubtedly this will make the journey to space cheaper.
Carman will cross the line
Internationally, the boundary of space is considered 100 km above the Earth, which is called the Carman Line. Bezos will go beyond this limit with his team. Brenson’s team went for 86 kilometers.
four riders in total
Apart from Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, the youngest going into space, 18-year-old student Oliver Damon and the oldest going into space, 82-year-old Wally Funk, will live in this vehicle. His team is currently staying at Blue Origin’s Astronaut Village for training before leaving for space.
story of date
Jeff Bezos has also carefully fixed the date of July 20 to go to space. On this day in 1969, man stepped on the moon for the first time. America’s Apollo 11 spacecraft reached the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Blue Origin’s rocket is also named New Shepard in honor of Alan Shepard, the first American to go into space.
VTVL Rocket Hai Shepard
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket works on VTVL (Vertical Take-off Vertical Landing) technology. In this technique, the way the rocket goes up, it comes down in the same way with controlled and low speed. The computer installed in it will control this entire journey. SpaceX’s Falcon-9 falls into this category to some extent, although it cannot be fully reused. SpaceX is also working on its Starship rocket. It is believed that it will be exactly like New Shepard.
the road has been tough
The technique of VTVL may sound simple, but in reality it is not so simple. Many experiments in this direction have also failed before success. It is a big challenge to control the thrust of the rocket while coming down. Every minute detail has to be taken care of to control the entire withdrawal process. A slight mistake in any calculation at the time of landing can lead to the failure of the entire attempt. In the case of India’s Chandrayaan-2 lander while landing on the moon, the mission failed due to a similar lapse.
journey stops
– The New Shepard rocket will take off with the capsule along with the passengers and the capsule will separate after reaching the Carman line.
– Passengers will experience four minutes of weightlessness in space. This will be followed by a parachute landing of the capsule in the desert of West Texas.
