After the postponement of the Blue Origin flight, which was originally scheduled for Friday (20), Victor Hespanha, a Brazilian crew member, took to his Instagram stories to make a statement and explain the next steps until the trip has ended. finally take place. According to the civil production engineer, with the delay he must return to Brazil and await the command of the company of Jeff Bezos.
“Given the updates I was about to give, we [ele e esposa] still waiting for some definitions from Blue Origin, the expectations are very positive, but we will, in fact, return to Brazil to wait for confirmation. [eu] I think it will be soon, and we follow the same plan and we will keep the same team,” Hespanha explained, stressing the possibility of just “hit and come back” in the country.
“We come back directly to training, without this social part, we go directly to the essentials, that is to say the training part and the mission”, added the team member.
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Blue Origin delayed the crewed flight after one of the New Shepard spacecraft’s backup systems failed to meet performance expectations, the company said in an official statement on Twitter. As of now, no new travel dates have been announced.
In addition to Victor, the crew is made up of five other members: engineer and investor Evan Dick, former NASA test chief and first Mexican to go into space, Katya Echazarreta, business jet pilot and entrepreneur Hamish Harding, fellow entrepreneur and adventure seeker Jaison Robinson and retired US Navy commander and explorer Victor Vescovo, who is a co-founder of private equity firm Insight Equity.
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