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An inside look at the before, during, and after of William Shatner's trip to space.

Blue Origin NS-21 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, which launched on 4 June 2022 using the New Shepard rocket. It was Blue Origin's fifth crewed flight, and twenty-first overall to reach space. Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke was a guest of Blue Origin attending the launch. The crew of six included Evan Dick, who previously flew onboard Blue Origin NS-19, making him the first person to fly on New Shepard twice. Also onboard was Katya Echazarreta, who became the first Mexican-born woman and youngest American woman to fly to space, and Victor Vescovo, a notable undersea explorer. The flight made Vescovo the first person to complete the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta, which involves travelling to the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the summit of Mount Everest, and flying to space.

Blue Origin NS-20 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin, which launched on March 31st, 2022 using the New Shepard rocket. With six people onboard, it was Blue Origin's fourth crewed flight, and twentieth flight overall to reach space.

The reusable rocket "New Shepard" flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet. It was the third flight with reused hardware. Pushing the envelope on this flight, we restarted the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp to high thrust fast. It created a sonic boom throughout the valley and touched down gently on the recovery pad. This was not only a wonderful engineering accomplishment, but a beautiful sight to see.

Blue Origin NS-16 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin which flew on 20 July 2021. The mission was the sixteenth flight of the company's New Shepard integrated launch vehicle and spacecraft, and its first crewed flight. It carried into space American billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, pilot and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk, and Dutch student Oliver Daemen.

Blue Origin NS-23 was an uncrewed sub-orbital spaceflight mission which launched on 12 September 2022. The booster failed during MaxQ, about a minute after launch, triggering the launch escape system, which removed the capsule from the booster. The capsule landed successfully.

Blue Origin successfully completed its sixth human spaceflight on Thursday, August 4. The crew of six included Sara Sabry, who became the first Egyptian person in space, and Mário Ferreira, who became the first Portuguese person in space. Also onboard was Coby Cotton, one of the co-founders of American YouTube channel Dude Perfect.

Blue Origin NS-19 was a crewed New Shepard sub-orbital spaceflight mission operated by Blue Origin that launched on 11 December 2021. The crew of six included Laura Shepard Churchley, daughter of the first U.S. astronaut in space, as well the namesake for the New Shepard spaceflight program, Alan Shepard, Michael Strahan, a Hall of Fame former New York Giants defensive end, as well as a co-anchor of Good Morning America and analyst for Fox NFL Sunday, executive Dylan Taylor, investor Evan Dick, Bess Ventures founder Lane Bess and his child, Cameron, who became the first parent and child on the same spaceflight.

Since the dawn of civilization, humanity has been fixated on predicting our own demise. Perhaps it will be asteroids, black holes, or something even more mysterious that will wipe us out. But is there anything we can do to predict the future and protect ourselves from apocalypse? Will our civilization end-or will we find a way to evolve and endure?

For centuries. humanity has been fixated on Mars--the glowing red orb in the night sky. As a new era of exploration of the Red Planet begins. we are on the cusp of finally solving the Red Planet's mysteries. Ancient cataclysms are believed to have left Mars barren, but science continues to find clues that this red planet was once blue and capable of producing life. Will we finally uncover evidence of life on Mars. once we finally set foot there? And what else might we discover on this mysterious planet?

Commercialization in the space industry brings a new era of innovation and exploration.

Josh Gates boldly explores members' most heart-pounding journeys into space. Apollo 13 astronauts fight to bring their crippled spacecraft 238,000 miles back to Earth and futuristic SpaceShipOne could give the rest of us a chance to travel to space.

A perfume chemist makes scents with science, a team tries to help birds in Texas, how our brains can make us cry, and Electric Kat goes to space.

Electric Kat goes to space, how composting helps the environment, the mind-blowing discoveries of NASA's latest telescope, and virtual reality you can feel.