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Mission patch, launch date
February 21, 2025 11:27 EST
I will blast off on a rocket on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM CST.
Learn more about the symbolism of the patch.
Crew 10 Announcement “Hello, World!”
February 19, 2025 2:45pm
Happy Birthday to me. At 4pm PST, February 18, 2025, Crew 10 NS-30 was announced in a Blue Origin press release and I’m in it.
I felt like I had just been born on the internet.
My phone started buzzing non stop with messages that said, “Congratulations!”
One of the first commands I learned in the C programming language was:
printf(“Hello, World!\n”)
Running this command causes the words “Hello, World!” to appear on a computer screen. The first time I made this happen, I stared googly eyed at my screen for a few seconds. I felt like my computer had come alive and was now talking to me.
Staring at my photo in this crew announcement gave me the same feeling. The internet me had just been created and she had a Facebook and Instagram account. A new internet person, just born, with zero friends and followers.
“Hello, World!”, she said.
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The countdown begins
February 14, 2025
The anticipation is palpable. It fills my every thought, every action, and hovers in the air just above my skin. I can feel it all around me as I move about. I have been given a date. I’m going to space! The grin on my face must be absolutely dorky but luckily I’m not someone who looks in the mirror much.
I have met my crewmates via a Zoom astronaut meet-and-greet. Upon accessing my online astronaut portal, I am greeted with the words “Astronaut Elaine.” There, I can buy artifacts from my flight like pieces of the rocket and various models and replicas.
Yesterday, I met with primary school kids who interviewed me about my upcoming trip. They stood in line for my autograph. I wrote “See you in space! – Elaine Hyde” on little pieces of paper and they looked adoringly at me with eyes full of wonder. In that instant, I didn’t need to go to space anymore. I wanted time to stop, frozen in that moment.
Onward.