The daughter of mercury astronaut Alan Shepard will have to wait some time before she can take the suborbital spacecraft named after her father.
Jeff Bezos’s blue origin space company postponed its next Shepard mission to Saturday because of concerns about the wind on Thursday, which was originally the launch date of Laura Shepard churchley. Her late father was the first American to enter space in 1961. His suborbital space flight was the inspiration for the name of the new Shepard.
Five other astronauts will wait for a suborbital flight at the blue origin 1 launch site in West Texas with chuckley: Michael Strahan, CO anchor of ABC Good Morning America; Lane Bess and Cameron Bess, founders of Bess ventures, are the first father son combination to enter space together; There are also two business executives, Evan Dick and Dylan Taylor. Chuckley and Strahan were guests of blue origin, while others paid an undisclosed fee.
“The team has completed the flight readiness review and confirmed that the aircraft has met all mission requirements for launch,” Lanyuan spokesman Sarah Blask said in an email today. “The astronauts will complete their training today, and the weather is still the only factor in the launch.”
The launch time is now 8:45 a.m. Saturday Eastern time (6:45 a.m. Pacific time). Blue origin’s website and Youtube will start live in T-90 minutes. Further updates will be delivered through blue origin’s Twitter account.
This will be the third manned suborbital space flight of blue origin after the first space trip in July (Bezos is also among the astronauts), and the flight of Star Trek Captain William Shatner in October.