加载中…蓝色起源将在两年内的首次任务中将人类送入太空
(2024-05-15 04:26:12)
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发布时间： 2024年5月15日 06：40 UTC •
作者：丹尼尔·帕特拉斯库
https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/blue-origin-to-send-humans-to-space-in-first-mission-in-two-years_12.jpg几年前，世界陷入了一场前所未有的太空竞赛。历史上第一次，三家私营公司竞相将没有接受过长期宇航员训练的平民送入太空。从那时起，步伐似乎放慢了一点。
这三家公司分别是SpaceX、维珍银河和蓝色起源。迄今为止，埃隆·马斯克（Elon
Musk）的公司向太空派遣了一名平民机组人员，也是最令人印象深刻的：早在2021年，四名机组人员，包括一名装有假肢骨的机组人员，在太空中度过了将近三天。
理查德·布兰森（Richard Branson）的维珍银河（Virgin
Galactic）设法执行了六次太空任务，但就其而言，事情远没有那么壮观。虽然发射方法——航天器在设定的高度从舰载机下方起飞——很壮观，但这次旅行本身却不是，因为它只提供了几分钟的体验空间。
杰夫·贝佐斯（Jeff Bezos）的蓝色起源（Blue
Origin）提供了与维珍（Virgin）相同的刺激，只是它以传统方式直接从发射台发射。该公司的宇宙飞船“新谢泼德”号已经这样做了六次，将最年长的男人（威廉·夏特纳，90岁）和最年长的女人（82岁的沃利·芬克）都送上了太空。
蓝色起源的最后一次载人飞行任务，即第六次，于 2022
年出发，载有六人，其中包括第一批前往太空的埃及人和第一批葡萄牙国民。然后，一场小型灾难随之而来。
在第六次任务出发的同一年，无人驾驶的新谢泼德号（NS-24任务）遇到了发动机喷嘴问题，这导致了任务的失败，因为船上的科学仪器未能到达太空。不过，载有他们的太空舱确实安全着陆。
随后的调查和所需的修复使蓝色起源公司退出了私人太空竞赛，直到 2023 年底，同样无人驾驶的 NS-24
任务设法升空并完成了它的工作。
NS-25将标志着蓝色起源重返载人航天。该任务计划于5月19日离开我们的星球，将成为该公司第七次载人入轨飞行。
太空舱内将有六人，其中包括美国第一位黑人宇航员候选人埃德·德怀特（Ed
Dwight），他于1961年被约翰·肯尼迪总统亲自选中参加宇航员训练。他从未参加过美国宇航局的实际任务。
陪同他的有Industrious Ventures的创始人Mason Angel，法国最大的精酿啤酒厂之一（Brasserie
Mont Blanc）的创始人Sylvain Chiron，Family Tree Maker的创始人Ken
Hess，退休的注册会计师和冒险家Carol Schaller，以及Preserve Life Corp的联合创始人Gopi
Thotakura。
Blue Origin计划于美国中部时间5月19日上午8：30发射，并将在发射前40分钟开始在公司官方网站上进行网络直播。
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编者按：图库还展示了NS-22任务的图像。
原文阅读
Blue Origin to Send Humans to Space in First Mission in Two Years
Published: 15 May 2024, 06:40 UTC • By:
A couple of years ago the world was engulfed in a space race the likes of which it had never seen before. For the first time in history, three private companies were competing to send civilians with no long-term astronaut training into space. Since that time, the pace seems to have slowed down a bit.
The three companies are SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue
Origin. Elon Musk's company sent a single civilian crew to space to
date, and also the most impressive: back in 2021, a crew of four
people, including one with a prosthetic leg bone, spent almost
three days in space.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic managed to far to conduct six
space missions, but in its case things are far less spectacular.
Although the launch method – a spacecraft departing from underneath
a carrier plane at a set altitude – is spectacular, the trip itself
is not, because it offers only a few minutes of experiencing
space.
Jeff Bezos'
Blue Origin offers the same thrills as Virgin, only it launches
in the conventional fashion, straight up from a launch pad. The
company's spacecraft, New Shepard, did this six times already,
taking to space both the oldest man (William Shatner, 90) and the
oldest woman (Wally Funk, 82).
Blue Origin's last crewed mission, the sixth, departed back in
2022, carrying with it six people, including the first Egyptian and
the first Portuguese nationals to travel to space. And then, a sort
of mini-disaster followed.
The same year the sixth mission departed, an uncrewed New Shepard
(mission NS-24) suffered an engine nozzle problem, which led to the
failure of the mission in the sense the science instruments on
board failed to reach space. The capsule carrying them did land
safely, though.
The investigation that followed and the required fixes kept Blue
Origin out of the private space race until the end of 2023, when
the NS-24 mission, also uncrewed, managed to lift off and do its
thing.
NS-25 will mark Blue Origin's return to crewed spaceflights. The
mission, scheduled to leave our planet on May 19, will become the
company's seventh flight into orbit with humans on board.
Six people will be in the capsule, including Ed Dwight, America's
first black
astronaut candidate, who was personally chosen by President
John F. Kennedy to enter astronaut training in 1961. He never got
to fly on actual NASA missions.
He will be accompanied by Mason Angel, founder of Industrious
Ventures, Sylvain Chiron, founder of one of France's largest craft
breweries (Brasserie Mont Blanc), Ken Hess, the creator of the
Family Tree Maker, Carol Schaller, a retired CPA and adventurer,
and Gopi Thotakura, co-founder of Preserve Life Corp.
Blue Origin targets launch at 8:30 AM CDT on May 19, and it will
begin a webcast, available on the company's official website, 40
minutes prior to launch.
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