Home News Spaceflight Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard vehicle fires up to launch William Shatner, Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries and Audrey Powers to the final frontier on Oct. 13, 2021. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin’s fifth human spaceflight won’t take place on Friday (May 20) after all.Jeff Bezos’ company had been targeting Friday…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin space tourism company announced Friday that its next rocket will take off on May 20 with six passengers on board. One of the travelers will be the first woman born in Mexico to go into space. Liftoff is scheduled for 8:30 am (1330 GMT) from western Texas.…
Home News Spaceflight The NS-21 group of space tourists flying aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft include six individuals. Top row, left to right: Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta and Hamish Harding. Bottom row, left to right: Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson and Victor Vescovo. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin’s fifth human spaceflight will take…
The Jets new cornerback arrives with a flashy game and an equally flashy name. Ahmad Gardner was taken No. 4 overall by the Jets in Thursday night’s NFL Draft, but you won’t find many people calling him Ahmad. He is known as “Sauce” Gardner. He explained the history of the nickname recently to the NFL…
Despite being one of cinema’s most influential works, I’m not a fan of “The Godfather” – purely for personal reasons, understand. Never have I questioned its essentiality, and I certainly appreciate the revolutionary cinematic touches Francis Ford Coppola uses to bring the Corleone saga to life. Even so, it has never been one of my…
Blue Origin has shared a video showing highlights from its first space tourism mission of 2022. The six passengers — a mix of business people and specialists in the space industry — took their seats inside a capsule atop Blue Origin’s suborbital New Shepard rocket at the company’s facility in West Texas on Thursday, March…
Home News Spaceflight Businessman and professor Jim Kitchen, right, pulls out one of his passports during Blue Origin’s NS-20 suborbital spaceflight on March 31, 2022. Kitchen brought 10 passports with him on the trip, as well as a Ukrainian flag and an American flag. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin’s latest spaceflight featured a tribute…
Home References Spaceflight (Image credit: Getty Images) The V2 rocket was the world’s first large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, developed between 1936 and 1942 in Nazi Germany. It is regarded as a revolutionary breakthrough in rocket technology, with the use of liquid fuel increasing its thrust capabilities and making it the first artificial object to enter space. The…
Home News Spaceflight Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket lifts off from the company’s West Texas launch site, carrying Jeff Bezos along with his brother Mark Bezos, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen and 82-year-old Wally Funk, on July 20, 2021. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Blue Origin’s next six spaceflyers will have to wait a couple of extra days…
AbstractCell-free RNA from liquid biopsies can be analyzed to determine disease tissue of origin. We extend this concept to identify cell types of origin using the Tabula Sapiens transcriptomic cell atlas as well as individual tissue transcriptomic cell atlases in combination with the Human Protein Atlas RNA consensus dataset. We define cell type signature scores,…