The company Blue Origin announced, on Friday (13), the date of the next space trip of the New Shepard spacecraft: on May 20, six crew members will go to the edge of space, including mining engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, who can become the 2nd Brazilian to undertake a space trip.
The company also released the official emblem of the trip, which features elements from each of the crew. In the case of Hespanha, the shape of a diamond with a circle represents “the flag of Brazil in homage to the origins of Victor Hespanha”, declared the company.
The emblem and disclosure of the travel date were published on Blue Origin’s social networks.
Victor was drawn after investing in Gen-1, an asset of the Crypto Space Agency. THE CNN , the engineer said he is living a dream. “I am very happy, living a dream. It’s a childhood dream. Every Brazilian dreams of being a soccer player or an astronaut and I am fulfilling the dream of going to space”, he said at the time.
The flight will be the fifth crew member of the New Shepard, a Blue Origin rocket, and will have five more crew members in addition to Victor: the American Evan Dick, who has already been part of the New Shepard mission in December 2021; Katya Echazarreta, who will become the first Mexican woman to go into space; Hamish Harding, businessman and commercial aircraft pilot; and Jaison Robinson and Victor Vescovo, two investors.
Source: CNN Brasil
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