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Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Feb. 25 for 10th space tourism launch
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Blue Origin is targeting next Tuesday (Feb. 25) for its 10th space tourism mission, which will send six people to the final frontier. If all goes according to plan, Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard vehicle will lift off from the company's West Texas site on Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. EST (1630 GMT; 9:30 a.m. local Texas time). You'll be able to watch the action live, beginning 35 minutes before launch. The upcoming mission is called NS-30, because it will be the 30th overall launch of New Shepard, a reusable rocket-capsule combo. Most of the vehicle's missions — which last 10 to 12 minutes from launch to capsule touchdown — have been uncrewed research flights. Blue Origin, which was founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos in September 2000, has announced the identities of five of the six people going up on NS-30. They are venture capitalist Lane Bess (who's flying on New Shepard for the second time), Spanish TV host Jesús Calleja, entrepreneur and physicist Elaine Chia Hyde, reproductive endocrinologist Richard Scott and hedge fund partner Tushar Shah. You can learn more about them in our crew reveal story. We still don't know who the sixth crewmember is. Related: Blue Origin crew, including history's 100th woman to fly to space, lands safely (video) RELATED STORIES: — Facts about New Shepard, Blue Origin's rocket for space tourism — In photos: William Shatner launches to space on Blue Origin's New Shepard — Blue Origin launches Michael Strahan and crew of 5 on record-setting suborbital spaceflight Blue Origin announced NS-30's target launch date today (Feb. 25), in an update that also revealed the mission's patch. That update explained the significance of some of the patch's symbols. In Blue Origin's words: The mountain represents Spanish mountaineer and adventurer Jesús Calleja, who has climbed the world's Seven Summits. The airplane and clouds represent Jesús Calleja, Elaine Hyde, Dr. Richard Scott, and Tushar Shah, all of whom are pilots. The dove with the olive branch represents Jesús Calleja and Lane Bess' hope for peace for all. The Southern Cross represents Elaine Hyde's Australian and Singaporean heritage. The Roman numeral II along the bottom edge represents Lane's second flight. The winding road on the mountain leading to the crew capsule represents the road to space each of the crew's astronauts have taken.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Starbase youth STEM program at Barksdale faces closure
BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A national program funded through the U.S. Department of Defense faces closure as a budget battle in Congress puts financing in flux. Starbase is a national educational program funded by the Department of Defense. The Starbase for Caddo and Bossier students is located on Barksdale Airforce Base. All fifth graders go through the program, which is STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) based. The program is funded through the federal budget, which has not been approved for 2025. Because funding is not available the program officially ended at the end of January, however, our local program continues thanks to a local non-profit providing funding until the end of February. More Local News Many people in our community have been through the program Program Director Richard Scott said, 'We were blown away by the support on social media. We did a little post just to let everybody know what's going on and I think this morning there were a hundred thousand views and five hundred shares.' The hope is that funding will be included in the upcoming federal budget and that the budget will be approved. If non-profit funding can not be found, the program will be shut down. We reached out to Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy to ask about the status of funding for Starbase, however, we did not hear back, if we do we will update this article. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
