Jul 04, 2019 07:00:00

A challenge to the world record to go around the earth in 48 hours to live delivery

Former NASA astronaut

Terry Baht, who previously served as commander of the International Space Station, is a veteran space flight who has traveled more than 3,400 orbits around the Earth in a total of three missions. I am an officer. Mr. Baht is planning to make a live broadcast of setting a world record by making another round of the earth this time with a jet at an average speed of 827 km / h.

One More Orbit
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Former astronaut to attempt global speed record | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/former-astronaut-leading-effort-to-beat-earth-circumnavigation-record/

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It looks like this map of a 48-hour itinerary.

In this challenge 'One More Orbit' to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 is launched at 9:32 am on July 16, 1969 (

EDT ) It starts at 9:32 am on July 9, 2019 (22:32 the same day in Japan time) on July 9, 2019. The jets carrying Baht and Hamish Harding, who will direct the mission, and the four pilots will depart from the same Kennedy Space Center as Apollo 11.

The jets that flew over the North Pole will be refueled at the

Nursultan Nazarbayev International Airport , which is located in the capital city Nursultan of Kazakhstan. In addition, Russian astronaut Gennady Padalka, who regained first place in space life time in June 2015, will board a jet to join the mission.

Then we traverse the Indian Ocean and pass over Antarctica. Along the way, you will arrive at the Kennedy Space Center after refueling at

Sir Ciusagar Languram International Airport in Mauritius and at the Presidente Carlos Ibanez del Campo International Airport in Chile.

The time from start to goal is planned to be 49 hours and 36 minutes, and if this can be achieved, it is expected to break the world round record established by the airline TAG Global's vice president Aziz Ojjeh in 2008 by 23 minutes. It uses the Business Jet Gulfstream G650ER which reaches the highest speed Mach 0.925.

This challenge will be recorded as a documentary and will be distributed live. When the official site is accessed, Bahts will depart at 9:32 am on July 9, 2019 (22:32 on the same day in Japan time) The countdown to is displayed.