Blue Origin aims
to conduct its fifth human spaceflight this weekend.
NS-21, the next mission
of Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital vehicle, is now targeted for Saturday (June 4)
NS-21 is scheduled to
launch from Blue Origin's West Texas site on Saturday during a window that opens at 9 a.m.
NS-21 was originally supposed
to launch on May 20, but Blue Origin delayed things after discovering a potential issue with one of New Shepard's backup systems.
New Shepard is a
reusable rocket-capsule combo that sends people and payloads on brief trips to suborbital space.
During each roughly
11-minute mission, passengers get to experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curve of Earth against the blackness of space.