The first manned commercial spaceflight of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is all systems go, with the space company’s reusable launch vehicle New Shepard set for liftoff Tuesday morning.
Specifically, Blue Origin hopes to ascend to the heavens on Tuesday, July 20, from Launch Site One in the West Texas desert. A live broadcast walking up to the liftoff starts at 6:30 a.m. Cdt/4:30 a.m. Pt. The actual ignition is scheduled 90 minutes later, at 8 a.m. Cdt/5 a.m. Pt. As of Sunday, weather was not a constraint to launch and New Shepard is expected to launch on time.
Marking the significance of Bezos’ first flight to space, major cable news networks are planning live coverage, as well as the traditional broadcast networks. Craig Melvin will anchor on NBC, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell will lead CBS’s coverage, and Robin Roberts and George Stephanopolous will anchor on...
Specifically, Blue Origin hopes to ascend to the heavens on Tuesday, July 20, from Launch Site One in the West Texas desert. A live broadcast walking up to the liftoff starts at 6:30 a.m. Cdt/4:30 a.m. Pt. The actual ignition is scheduled 90 minutes later, at 8 a.m. Cdt/5 a.m. Pt. As of Sunday, weather was not a constraint to launch and New Shepard is expected to launch on time.
Marking the significance of Bezos’ first flight to space, major cable news networks are planning live coverage, as well as the traditional broadcast networks. Craig Melvin will anchor on NBC, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell will lead CBS’s coverage, and Robin Roberts and George Stephanopolous will anchor on...
- 7/20/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Following her uncle’s support of Nasa's space mission, Rory Kennedy's Discovery Channel/Science Channel film Above and Beyond: Nasa’s Journey To Tomorrow depicts the modern focus of space travel as reporting back on the health of the Earth and finding out whether we're alone in the universe. "If you look at the next 20 to 30 years, it's going to make everything we've done so far seem really small,” Nasa Chief Scientist and consultant on the film Ellen Stofan said at TCA…...
- 1/13/2018
- Deadline TV
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