Wes Davis
Blue Origin’s NS-25 mission just reached space.
At about 3:46 into the flight, Blue Origin confirmed its NS-25 mission had passed into space, and its astronauts were in zero g space. The capsule is now descending back to earth.
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Wes Davis
New Shepard has launched.
Blue Origin’s rocket engines have fired, carrying its crew of six space tourists skyward.
Screenshot: YouTube
Wes Davis
Blue Origin is launching in one minute.
The walkway is retracted and New Shepard has switched to autonomous mode — the launch now can’t be canceled.
Screenshot: YouTube
Wes Davis
An interesting statistic.
Blue Origin’s livestream popped this image up, showing that about eight percent of women who’ve flown to space have been on New Shepard.
Screenshot: YouTube
Wes Davis
Blue Origin has started loading the crew for NS-25 onboard.
The company has also updated its targeted launch time for New Shepard’s NS-25 mission to 10:13AM ET. The livestream is also showing video now.
Wes Davis
Blue Origin has started the livestream for its next crewed launch.
Live coverage should be starting soon for the 25th launch of New Shepard, which hasn’t taken humans aboard in about two years after a booster malfunction on an uncrewed mission paused its space tourism launches in September 2022.
Blue Origin’s rocket is vertical on the launch pad and the company now targeting 9:52AM ET for launch.
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Victoria Song
Oura, Clue, and UC Berkeley are teaming up to study perimenopause.
Or the period before menopause, when ovaries gradually stop working. This particular study is aimed at shedding light on the physiological changes that happen during perimenopause and menopause — something that’s still not well understood as menopausal people are often excluded from studies.
Oura’s also adding a Cycle Insights Report feature, as well as including period data when calculating Readiness scores.
Richard Lawler
NASA’s quiet supersonic aircraft is getting closer to taking flight.
We’ve been waiting for the Quesst X-59 and the return of supersonic air travel for years now, and NASA’s latest update says things are moving along:
A Flight Readiness Review board composed of independent experts from across NASA has completed a study of the X-59 project team’s approach to safety for the public and staff during ground and flight testing.
