YouTuber Coby Cotton, co-founder of the group Dude Perfect, was among six people who went into space on Aug. 4 aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard NS-22. In addition to Cotton, the world’s first Egyptian and Portuguese astronauts were also on board. Slash Gear Report. The cotton seat on the ride to the edge of space was sponsored by crypto collective MoonDAO. MoonDAO was asked by voters to choose from celebrities whose spaceflight would be sponsored, and the dude won the perfect poll.
Dude Perfect then held a ‘rocket challenge’ among themselves to decide which of the quintet would go to space. Cotton won the contest and the ticket to space. Joining them on the ride were Mario Ferreira and Sarah Sabri, the first Portuguese and Egyptian astronauts, Vanessa O’Brien, who travels to extreme points in land, sea and air, Clint Kelly III who is a technology pioneer, and Steve Young. , who is the former CEO of Young Communications.
In a video uploaded to Dude Perfect’s YouTube channel, Cotton shared his journey and described how he prepared for the spacecraft with “Squad”. The flight was also chronicled, including the moments when the rocket lifted off, the magical moment when the crew began to float inside the crew capsule and also the moment it landed.
In June, Blue Origin successfully launched its fifth tourist flight into space. As reported by IANS, six people were flown into space above the Karman Line – an internationally recognized boundary of space, which is 62 miles (100 km) above the Earth’s surface.
The flight took off at 9:25 a.m. EDT from Launch Site One, the company’s facility in western Texas. The New Shepard consists of a rocket and a capsule, both of which can be reused. The booster descends shortly before the capsule arrives, performing a powered vertical landing, as in the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 orbital rocket.
Crew investor and NS-19 astronaut Evan Dick, electrical engineer and former NASA test lead Katya Echjareta, business jet pilot and Action Aviation chairman Hamish Harding, civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, co-founder of Adventurer and Dream Variation Ventures Founder Jason Robinson was involved. and Victor Vescovo, Commander, USN (retired), explorer and co-founder of private equity firm Insight Equity.
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