Blue Origin New Shepard Human Spaceflight Mission NS-28: "Apogee"
On November 22, 2024, Blue Origin successfully completed its ninth sub-orbital human spaceflight and the 28th flight for the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included: Emily Calandrelli, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Austin Litteral, James (J.D.) Russell, and Henry (Hank) Wolfond. Sharon and Marc Hagle both flew for the second time. Including [this] crew, New Shepard has now flown 47 people to space (three people have flown twice).
Apogee: This is the most distant point (ap-) on an elliptical orbit around Earth (-gee). The word is derived from the Greek "apogaion" meaning "away from the Earth". Earth in Greek is "gaia/ge".
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