NObody will give any medals when you leave the eleventh space journey of the Earth’s blue origin. SUBORPITAL SubOURT has a planned time on April 14 from 8:30 am CDT and will land after only 11 minutes. There is possible that there is no kind of global audience and the saturation coverage that attended other space launch operations.
This is not the case on May 5, 1961, when the NASA astronaut Alan Shepard I flew a file similar to flying – the bobagon track over the atmosphere and a few hundred miles down – due to the first American in space. Shepherd got immediate celebrities, President John Kennedy’s visit At the White House after three days to receive a distinguished service medal in NASA. since then, More than 700 people I traveled to space, crossing the 50 -mile height line, which was originally considered the border between the floor and the outer. (In the 1960s, the bar was raised a little, to 100 km, or 62 miles, Create the alleged kármán lineAfter the physicist and American American engineer Theodore von Carman.
But this next trip, as the company says, will be distinguished – thanks Construction of the crew. On board the new spacecraft, the spacecraft will be six people, including pop star, Katie Perry; TV character, Jail King. Journalist Lauren Sanchez, who also participates in Jeff Bezos, founder of both Amazon and Blue origin; Director Kirian Flynn; Researcher in biology and defender of survivors of sexual violence – and a woman per year – Amanda Ngwin; And the former missile world in NASA and the CEO of Stem Engineering Company, Aisha Boy.
Female astronauts have become common enough that the fact that the crew is fully consisted of women does not immediately cause a feeling. But the truth is that this is the first time since Valentina Tirishkova has flew from the Soviet Union to the orbit on its own on the Vostok 6 spacecraft in 1963, which there were no men on a vessel ship.
“These women are very Bads … they have amazing life stories, everything they have accomplished,” King said on the morning CBS. “This was never my dream. My dream was never. One of them said:” You may need to have new dreams, Gayl. “
“If you have told me that I would be part of the first crew of all females in space, I would believe in you,” Perry posted on Facebook. “There was nothing more than my imagination as a child. I can show all the smallest and most weak among us to reach the stars, literally and metaphorically. I am honored to be among this diverse group of heavenly sisters.”
In an email calling on journalists to cover the launch, Blue Origin refers to “Epic Crew” in the mission.
But is this truly news – or is there at least a group of waiver in causing a stir about the fact that a group of women fly without a man to keep them a company? Tirishkova’s trip was 62 years ago. Sally ride She became the first American woman in space 42 years ago. Eileen Collins She became the first shuttle leader in 26 years. Peggy Whitson She became the first leader of the International Space Station (ISS) 18 years ago. As for the current registration holder in NASA for the longest cumulative time in space? They are again, in 675 days.
In 2019, NASA made a lot of straw When astronaut Jessica Mir and Crystina Koch performed the first female space, and at that time, the full idea began to mark these moments seemed old.
“Oh, I can tell you tales from ancient days of the ideas of the original engineers of clothes and hygiene products for women.”[B]UT we are talking in the late 1970s, in the early 1980s. By the time when she flew in space in the 1990s, those things changed; They evolved, appeared, advanced and absorbed. By that time, a crew member was just a member of the crew. The same is true today … not a big problem. So why is the constant insistence on to prepare It’s a big deal? “
Ivins feels the same as the blue journey. “In the mid -nineties of the last century … a person reached the media trick to flying all shuttle women.” “It has been put on the women in the office and we all said,” O hell, no! “I personally found the full concept of insult.
It is not that career astronauts do not see any advantage at all on blue flights. “Tourist flights like the new Shaybard from Blue Orige are positive in many ways,” says retired astronaut and former ISS commander Terry Vertes in an email. “They support the prosperous commercial space industry, allow more people to see our beautiful planet from outer space and test the amazing sense of weight.”
The main names here are “tourists” and “humans”, not “men”, “women” or, in a large way, “astronauts”. The passengers on a new Shepard ship paid the price of flying concession, and although the blue origin does not advance the public with ticket costs, the company requires this A recovered deposit worth $ 150,000 Accompanying an initial application to go high.
However, it takes a little courage and a little gravel to make a new Shepard’s trip. The missile arrives More than 2200 miles per hourOr near Mach 3, on the way, drowning again through the air like a cannon after a few minutes of weightlessness, and depends on the umbrella to give passengers safely – not a kind of opportunities that each traveler wants to take. But this danger applies to everyone equally – with journey physics does not give figs for those in the seat.
“The fact that this is the female staff is not mainly relevant,” says John Ljdsdon, Fakhri Professor at George Washington University and former director of the school’s space policy institute. “Women are able to the same amount of men, and in fact there is a very little experiment.
If there is an example of the diversity of space that requires the celebration, then it is in the upcoming plans of Artemis Space Pioneers in NASA to return to the moon. Artemis II, scheduled for a translation mission in late 2026, It includes Crew members of Kristina Koch and Victor Glover, who will become the first woman and the first black person to do a lunar trip. It can be said that the tasks of Apollo Moon were the greatest exploration exercises in human history, and women and people were completely excluded. This is a real mistake that the nation goes to the right – as well as.