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Blue look: the first Portuguese astronaut to participate in a space mission
Published on July 11, 2022
Portuguese astronaut Jeff Bezos will take part in a space mission for the first time as part of the crew of Blue Origin’s next mission.
Jeff Bezos is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon.com.
The announcement was made during the GLEX 2022 Summit in Ponta Delgada, Azores, between July 4 and 7, in collaboration with the New York Explorers Club and the Portuguese company Expanding World, with the support of the Government of the Azores. and Portuguese tourism.
The Portuguese astronaut, whose identity has yet to be released, will board the New Shepherd spacecraft on a date to be announced after at least 14 hours of training and education.
The Portuguese astronaut will be the sixth New Shepard to join the crew of the next space mission. Mercury is named after astronaut Alan Shepard (1923-1998) in honor of his legacy as the first American to reach space on May 5, 1961.
Each special flight that takes astronauts over the 100 km Karman Line, which international authorities consider the limit of space, lasts an average of 11 minutes.
After reaching microgravity, astronauts are in “weightlessness” in subspace for about three minutes.
The Karman line is the height from which space begins. Its height is 100 km (about 62 miles). It usually represents the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.
In fact, the New Shepard program is a paid space tourism program that offers six seats in an 11-minute underwater plane 100 kilometers above the Garman Line, giving crew members the status of astronauts.
The crew capsule is programmed to descend using a parachute, which arrives on Earth a few minutes after liftoff. The design of the new Shepard spacecraft is based on a reusable rocket and capsule.
Organized by the New York Explorers Club and Expanding World based in Lisbon. GLEX Summit 2022 “What’s next?” More than 50 scientists and researchers from 14 countries of the world gathered under the motto.
The program is divided into four main themes: oceans; space exploration; nature conservation and climate change; and the great present and future expeditions of our time.
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The first known qualified Portuguese astronaut was Ana Pires, 41, who graduated as an astronaut-scientist from NASA. A graduate of the Escola de Engenharia do Instituto Politécnico do Porto and a researcher in systems and computer engineering, technology and science (INESC TEC), he received his diploma after successfully completing a certification course at Embry-Riddle Aviation University. , in Florida. The goal of the course is to prepare candidates for an additional space mission as a NASA Flight Specialist or Payload Specialist. The training included simulations of a hypoxia monitoring mission, piloting an aerobatic aircraft in a G-suited suit, and sessions in a hyperbaric chamber.
Currently, 13 aspiring Portuguese astronauts have moved on to the second stage of the astronaut selection process promoted by the European Space Agency (ESA), which means they can still be selected as part of the first group of European astronauts to travel to the moon. According to the ESA, of the 13 Portuguese invited to the second round of this conference, ten are men and three are women. All of them have already passed the necessary tests to see if they can proceed to the psychological tests of the second stage of the selection process. Initially, 320 Portuguese applied for the ESA program.
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