New Shepard Mission NS-26 Webcast

10 10 9 6 5 4 just start two one clear to There She Goes new shepher has cleared the tower on its way to space with its crew of six they are screaming up towards the Carmen line you can see the speedometer on your bottom left there as well as the altimeter and we're going to follow along with the flight on the left side of your screen with those Milestones first one coming up here is Max Q [Music] [Applause] wow Max Q has been confirmed maximum Dynamic pressure it's when the forces on the vehicle between the atmosphere and the speed are at their are maximum we've punched right through it as well as punch through that layer of clouds the the vehicle continues on its upward Ascent toward space if you are just joining us we've had a clean liftoff of new Shepard's 26th flight in this program we are witnessing the eighth human space flight of new Shepard We Have astronauts 38 through 43 on the vehicle on its way to space our next Milestone here is main engine cut off and what we'll witness is the speed will start to come down but the uh the Accel excuse me the the altitude will continue to go up when the speed hits zero means we have hit [Music] apigy and Jackie I think one of the other cool part of this program is that we slow you see that kind of slight little hot dog roll we got going on of the rocket we just want to give well it's really is just to give the astronauts each 360° view as they're going up which is so cool all right main engine cut off and separation have been confirmed and Jackie this is one of our our astronauts are feeling zero g Dr Rob furl is going to start his his experiments up there in the cabin hopefully after a little time to look out the window pre- experimentation I would totally steal at least a a a couple of looks out of the big gorgeous windows and again we're coming up on apy you see that the speed is reducing when it hits zero that's when we've hit that is when we've hit AP at this point we are well over the Carmen line about 328,000 or 100 K 328,000 ft or 100 km up and there it is apigee about 340,000 ft Jackie can you imagine the view I was talking about being jealous of your Astronaut training but I'm more jealous of them right now know they're unbuckled at the moment they are turning their somersaults they are soaking it in they are you know we're witnessing six people having their minds blown right now as we speak but the booster is heading on down and it will beat the the capsule back to Earth the booster of course has a controlled landing on a landing pad just two miles north of where it's taken off from the capsule less aerodynamically shaped will uh will land second under three parachutes uh in our uh Landing Zone in our Valley in West Texas so far a nominal flight of our 26 mission to space and back of the new sheeper vehicle plus our eighth human space FL congratulations truly to all six of our astronauts today oh I'm sorry our crew who officially have become astronauts massive congratulations over the Carmen line Phoenix report Phoenix report status Phoenix and all as heard all six astronauts are back in their seat and the booster is screaming on home yeah as we mentioned that booster is going to return to Earth a lot faster than the capsule because of the aerodynamic nature of the crew capsule is coming back to the clouds that's a sweet view of the booster as it's coming back through the atmosphere here so we see the drag brakes have been deployed there's the relight of that be3 engine that gorgeous hover above the landing and booster touchdown a successful touchdown of the booster for the NS 26 Mission always a sight to see always a sight to see really I mean it's been going thousands of miles per hour and then it comes in landing you see it just kind of hovers there at 5 miles and hour it's such a smooth descent and it's and landing and to as as a reminder to people this is so critical to the reusability because the the smoother The Landing the less you jostle the rocket the less you have to refurbish the rocket the more you can more uses you can get out of the rocket absolutely and some some really cool things here right like those fins you were talking about earlier are Lessons Learned with guiding this vehicle back are going to be applied to our next big vehicle new Glenn so again just so many Lessons Learned From This booster every single Mission every single Mission now the the crew capsule is obviously also coming back down to land here uh we are going to have first the drug parachutes that come out those are kind of like the guide parachutes then we're going to see the mains they will Reef so they're going to kind of kind of go out just a little bit and then they fully inflate and talk about cutting speed you can already see the speed on the the on the the screen there it comes in at just like 15 16 miles an hour for nice there she is and again these parachutes both the droges and the mains are essential in providing a gentle touchdown for the capsule but as we get closer to the ground here you're going to see a retro thrust system on the base of the C capsule um which does kick up a bit of West Texas dust but it makes for an even smoother touchdown then again you know like you said the already slow speed that the capsule is descending at now we're just 400 feet away from touchdown again stay tuned for that retro thrust system here and crew capsule touchdown welcome home to the newest six astronauts the blue steel team once more what appears to be a completely smooth flight for new Shephard uh our booster touching down at the at the landing pad and a soft Landing for our latest crew