<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><header style="margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;" class=""><h1 style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" style="font-weight: normal;" size="4" class="">Hi all,</font></h1><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""> This is the latest on Ingenuity…we have been following the updates so I could give you the new date and times…we will have to wait a little longer...<span class="" style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); background-color: white;">we have to stay positive and always be thankful…</span> still so much going on with the space program… </font><b class="" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 20px;">be sure to register as</b><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 20px;" class=""> </span><span class="" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a NASA virtual guest for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission.</span><span class="" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(see below)...</span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-size: large;" class="">remembering to do our best, enjoy everything we do, believe in ourselves, and let those we care about most know (I always say this, we all need to take it to heart) …hugs & smiles... :-) :-) STAY SAFE, TAKE CARE, Love ya, Gabe</span></div><h1 style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class=""></h1><h1 style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity won't fly until next week at the earliest</h1><div class="byline-social" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">By </font><font color="#0433ff" class=""><span class="no-wrap by-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.space.com/author/mike-wall" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Mike Wall</a></span> </font><time itemprop="datePublished" class="no-wrap chunk relative-date" datetime="2021-04-13T11:06:39Z" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 1ex 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">16 hours ago</time></div><p class="strapline" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#333333" class="">The team will modify and reinstall Ingenuity's flight-control software. for the latest on Ingenuity go to: </font><font color="#0433ff" class=""><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/home/index.html" class="">https://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/home/index.html</a> </font></p><section class="content-wrapper" style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></section><nav class="box socialite-widget less-space " data-contexturl="https://www.space.com/nasa-delays-mars-helicopter-ingenuity-flight-again" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; 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A high-speed rotor-spinning test on Friday (April 9) didn't go as planned, however,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><a href="https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-flight-delay" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">pushing the debut back</font></u></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">until Wednesday (April 14) at the earliest.</span></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Now, after analyzing the issue over the weekend, the Ingenuity team has concluded "that minor modification and reinstallation of Ingenuity’s flight control software is the most robust path forward," officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, which manages Ingenuity's technology-demonstrating mission,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span><font color="#0433ff" class=""><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/290/work-progresses-toward-ingenuity-s-first-flight-on-mars/" target="_blank" data-url="https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/290/work-progresses-toward-ingenuity-s-first-flight-on-mars/" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">wrote in an update</u></a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""> </span></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Monday (April 12).</span></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">"Our best estimate of a targeted flight date is fluid right now, but we are working toward achieving these milestones and will set a flight date next week," NASA officials wrote in the update.</font></span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Related:</span><a href="https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-tests-rotor-blades" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font color="#afc3e9" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""> </font><u style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Watch NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity test its blades! (video)</font></span></u></a></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">Validating the software change and beaming it to the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper, via NASA's </span><a href="https://www.space.com/perseverance-rover-mars-2020-mission" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Perseverance rover</font></u></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class="">, will take some time, the officials added. A detailed timeline is still being worked out, and the team plans to set a new flight date next week.</span></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><font color="#333333" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><a href="https://ww" class="">https://ww</a> </span></font><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">"We are confident in the team’s ability to work through this challenge and prepare for Ingenuity’s historic first controlled, powered flight on another planet," officials wrote. Ingenuity remains healthy and stable, and its vital systems such as power and communications are working properly, they added.</span></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">Perseverance and Ingenuity landed together inside Mars' 28-mile-wide (45 kilometers) Jezero Crater on Feb. 18. On April 3, the solar-powered helicopter deployed from the rover's belly and began soaking up the Martian sun for the first time.</font></span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class="">After powering up, Ingenuity began going through a series of preflight checkouts. The chopper sailed through all of these tests except the final one — Friday's spinup, which aimed to get Ingenuity's two rotors up to 2,400 revolutions per minute, the same rotational speed they'll reach during flight. </font></span></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><font color="#333333" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">But during the test, "the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a 'watchdog' timer expiration," NASA officials </font><a href="https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/291/mars-helicopter-flight-delayed-to-no-earlier-than-april-14/" target="_blank" data-url="https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/291/mars-helicopter-flight-delayed-to-no-earlier-than-april-14/" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">wrote in a statement</font></u></a><font color="#333333" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> on Saturday (April 10). "This occurred as it was trying to transition the flight computer from 'Pre-Flight' to 'Flight' mode.</font><font color="#333333" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">”</span></font></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><font color="#333333" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Ingenuity carries two cameras but no scientific instruments. Its main task is to show that powered flight on Mars is possible, potentially opening up a new mode of exploration on the Red Planet. If Ingenuity's month-long flight campaign is successful, future Mars missions </font><a href="https://www.space.com/mars-helicopter-nasa-space-exploration.html" data-component-tracked="1" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">could commonly include helicopters</font></u></a><font color="#333333" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> as scouts for rovers or as data gatherers in their own right, NASA officials have said.</font></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="4" class=""><font color="#333333" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></font></font></figcaption><figcaption itemprop="caption description" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class=""><header style="margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;" class=""><h1 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: inherit; font-size: 28px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">SpaceX's SN15 Starship prototype rolls out to launch pad</h1><div class="byline-social" style="margin: 0px; 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margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 650px; height: auto;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">That previous vehicle, SN11, performed well during most of its 6.2-mile-high (10 kilometers) flight on March 30 but suffered a serious problem </font><a href="https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn11-crash-cause" data-component-tracked="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">while gearing up for landing</font></u></a><font color="#333333" class="">. (SpaceX skipped the SN12, SN13 and SN14 iterations, going directly from SN11 to SN15.) </font></p><p style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 650px; height: auto;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Video:</span><a href="https://videos.space.com/m/78dXZUyF/spacex-starship-sn11-lost-minutes-after-foggy-launch?list=9wzCTV4g" data-url="https://videos.space.com/m/78dXZUyF/spacex-starship-sn11-lost-minutes-after-foggy-launch?list=9wzCTV4g" data-component-tracked="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><font color="#afc3e9" face="inherit" style="color: rgb(175, 195, 233);" class=""><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class=""> </span></font><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Watch SpaceX's Starship SN11 launch on a test flight</font></span></u></a></p><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><header style="font-size: 16px; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 30px 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;" class=""><h1 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 34px; font-size: 28px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Blue Origin to launch 'astronaut rehearsal' New Shepard test flight Wednesday. How to watch live.</h1><div class="byline-social" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 23px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">By </font><font color="#0433ff" class=""><span class="no-wrap by-author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.space.com/author/mike-wall" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;" class="">Mike Wall</a></span> </font><time itemprop="datePublished" class="no-wrap chunk relative-date" datetime="2021-04-13T11:02:14Z" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 1ex 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;">16 hours ago</time></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><nav class="box socialite-widget less-space " data-contexturl="https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-april-2021-test-flight-webcast" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; float: left; clear: both; width: 602px;"></nav></div></div></header><section class="content-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: visible;"><div class="box less-space hero-image-wrapper" itemprop="image" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: table; float: left; clear: both; width: 602px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative; width: 602px;" class=""><div class="hero-image-padding-wrap padding-on" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px;"><div class="hero-image-padding" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 338.3125px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; position: relative; height: 0px;"><picture class=""><font size="3" class=""><source type="image/webp" alt="Blue Origin's first upgraded New Shepard rocket and crew capsule launches on an uncrewed suborbital flight from the company's West Texas test site on Jan. 14, 2021. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font size="3" class=""><span class="caption-text" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue Origin's first upgraded New Shepard rocket and crew capsule launches on an uncrewed suborbital flight from the company's West Texas test site on Jan. 14, 2021. </span><span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;">(Image credit: Blue Origin)</span></font></figcaption></div><div class="left-rail-area" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; 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font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Blue Origin</font></u></a><font color="#333333" class=""> plans to launch an uncrewed test flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Wednesday (April 14), and you can watch the action live online.</font></p><div id="ad-unit-1" class="ad-unit" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; height: auto;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">The company, which is led by <a href="http://Amazon.com" class="">Amazon.com</a> founder </font><a href="https://www.space.com/19341-jeff-bezos.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">Jeff Bezos</font></u></a><font color="#333333" class="">, will launch New Shepard from its West Texas site on Wednesday during a window that opens at 9 a.m. EDT (1300 GMT; 8 a.m. local time), if all goes according to plan. You can watch it on this page </font><a href="https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">and her</font></a><a href="https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class="">e</font></a><font color="#333333" class="">, as well as on the <a href="http://Space.com" class="">Space.com</a> homepage, starting an hour before liftoff, courtesy of Blue Origin, or </font><font color="#0433ff" class=""><a href="https://www.blueorigin.com/" target="_blank" data-url="https://www.blueorigin.com/" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; 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margin-bottom: 0px !important;"></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; height: auto;" class=""><font color="#333333" class="">Blue Origin is developing </font><a href="https://www.space.com/40372-new-shepard-rocket.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0433ff" class="">New Shepard</font></u></a><font color="#333333" class="">, a reusable rocket-capsule combo, to take paying customers and payloads on brief trips to suborbital space. Wednesday's flight, known as NS-15, won't carry any people, but it will be a substantial step toward crewed operations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5; vertical-align: baseline; width: 602px; height: auto;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Related:</span><a href="https://www.space.com/blue-origin-new-shepard-ns-11-test-flight-photos.html" data-component-tracked="1" class="hawk-link-parsed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><font color="#0433ff" class=""> <u style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Blue Origin's NS-11 New Shepard test flight in photos</span></u></font></a></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="byline-social" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.2em; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Coverage Set for NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 Briefings, Events, Broadcasts</span></div><div class=""><section id="ember33" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="type-image dnd-atom-wrapper context-full_width" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto 2em;"><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/51084589487_1ebbc1f7c7_k.jpeg" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(66, 139, 202);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" alt="The crew for the second long-duration SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2" title="" apple-inline="yes" id="AB6118BC-41F0-4A43-9FE9-8FAC204A06EF" class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;" src="cid:FC8EF068-FE1C-4A7D-9954-AD2E2A105E01"></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="caption" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 15px;">The crew for the second long-duration SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2, are pictured during a training session at the SpaceX training facility in Hawthorne, California. From left are, Mission Specialist Thomas Pesquet of the (ESA (European Space Agency); Pilot Megan McArthur of NASA; Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA; and Mission Specialist Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.</font></div><div class="credits" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 15px;">Credits: SpaceX</font></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="font-family: Helvetica; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div class="gl-contains-image"><table class="editor-image" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" class="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="publish-container"><img alt="" class="" width="256" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" src="https://files.constantcontact.com/008cb7e9701/45d8a8d9-9eb4-4a44-8c20-9efc418a897a.jpg" style="display: block; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="galileo-ap-layout-editor" style="font-family: Helvetica; border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-col OneColumnMobile" width="100%" align="" valign="top"><div class="gl-contains-text"><table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" class="" style="border-collapse: collapse; table-layout: fixed; min-width: 100%;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=" editor-text" align="left" valign="top" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: block; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; padding: 10px 20px;"><div class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></div><div class="galileo-ap-content-editor text-container"><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><font face="Gill Sans" size="5" class="">You are invited to be a NASA virtual guest for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission. </font></span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">The launch, on a Falcon 9 rocket, is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, April 22, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">NASA’s SpaceX Crew-2 mission will carry NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur – who will serve as the mission’s spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively – along with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who will serve as mission specialists. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Gill Sans" class="" style="font-size: 20px;">Click on the registration button below to receive mission updates, interactive opportunities, and a stamp for your NASA virtual passport following launch. 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