#new shepard

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[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

My thoughts on the NS-31 flight are as follows:

Who cares. "Space" tourism for the rich.

The USSR has already shown us what a real space program looks like.

The last slide is included simply bc it's now my favorite image.

[greenpostua]

🚀 14 квітня 2025 року ракета New Shepard компанії Blue Origin здійнялася в небо з першим за десятиліття повністю жіночим екіпажем на борту. І хоч цей політ подали як тріумф жіночої присутності в космосі, багато представників екологічної спільноти та прихильників захисту довкілля сприйняли його зовсім інакше.

Наприклад, модель та активістка Емілі Ратаковскі назвала політ “марною тратою ресурсів” і “символом олігархічної привілеї”, підкреслюючи його негативний вплив на довкілля та сумнівну користь для суспільства .

Суборбітальні місії задля “розваги” чи символізму суперечать принципам сталого розвитку, адже викиди під час запуску — серйозне навантаження на клімат.

А головне — такі польоти відкривають двері до космічного туризму для еліт, який ще більше навантажує довкілля. Тим більше, що увесь політ жіночого екіпажу тривав лише 11 хвилин — лише з метою поглянути на Землю з висоти, а не зробити якесь корисне і важливе дослідження або перевірити якусь наукову теорію чи відкриття.

Попри важливість жіночої репрезентації в науці, противники цього польоту наголошують: справжній прорив — це повага до планети, яка нас виростила.

[kuramirocket]

Katya Echazarreta will travel aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft

Katya Echazarreta was student of the year at San Diego City College in 2016

A San Diego City College alumna who has dreamed of exploring the cosmos since she was a child learned Monday that her wish will come true during a mission in which she will become the first Mexico-born woman to travel in space.

Katya Echazarreta was one of six people chosen to participate in a sub-orbital flight that will be staged by Blue Origin. 

Blue Origin officials say the 26 year-old Echazarreta, who has considerable experience as an electrical engineer, will serve as a citizen science astronaut on behalf of Space for Humanity.

“The news is out. I’m going to space,” she said Monday during a brief, giddy video on TikTok.

The date of the mission has yet to be set.

The crew will travel aboard New Shepard.

As her many followers on TikTok and YouTube know, Echazarreta was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and later moved to San Diego, where she attended San Diego City College. She was named student of the year there in 2016. Echazarreta transferred to UCLA and earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. She is finishing a Master’s program in engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Her resume also includes work as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she helped support such missions as the Mars Perseverance Rover, and the upcoming Europa Clipper trip to Jupiter.

She is better known to many as the host of the YouTube series Netflix IRL and as Electric Kat on Mission Unstoppable.

Echazarreta also promotes STEM education, especially on TikTok, where she subtly cheers people on by showing herself working through engineering problems. In one post, she sat at a work table and said, “Engineering can be really frustrating at times. It can feel like no matter you love the field, sometimes it just doesn’t love you back.

“But I’ve realized something recently. I’ve started to love those moments where nothing seems to be working, because I know what comes next. The moment where I finally figure it out.”

[high-quality-tiktoks]

This disconnect is real

[memesnotwelcome]

[Image Description: Tweet by @tanyaofmars that reads "Regardless of how you might feel about Jeff Bezos personally or the billionaire space race, today we should all be happy for absolute legend Wally Funk finally getting to fly into space, decades after proving she was more than qualified.” End description.]

[spaceexp]

Blue Origin NS-16: New Shepard’s First Human Flight

[timmurleyart]

Good luck to captain James T. Kirk and the blue origin crew. 🚀🌏🌛⭐️💫🪐