EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Space technology company Blue Origin has its next space flight scheduled for this weekend.
The company is scheduled to launch its New Shepard rocket in an uncrewed mission that will have more than 40 scientific and research payloads onboad.
This will be the New Shepard program’s 35th mission and will bring the number of payloads flown on it to more than 200.
The launch window will open at 6:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 MDT from the company’s Launch Site One outside of Van Horn, Texas.
A webcast will begin 15 minutes before liftoff. You can view the launch and flight by clicking here.
The payload manifest includes 24 experiments from NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge, along with thousands of postcards on behalf of Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s STEAM-focused nonprofit.
As part of its mission, Club for the Future works with organizations like NASA, universities, non-profits, and K-12 schools to inspire the next generation of space explorers, Blue Origin said.
The organization has engaged nearly 95 million people globally through initiatives including Postcards to Space, standards-aligned lessons to help teachers, and an ambassador program. Students can submit their own digital postcards to fly to space here.
The mission will provide over three minutes of “clean microgravity for experiments from a range of organizations, including NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Oklahoma State University, University of Florida, Carthage College, University of Central Florida, Teledyne, Space Lab Technologies, and Teachers in Space, among others,” Blue Origin said.
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