A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Among the many sights at EAA AirVenture 2017 is the New Shepard rocket developed by commercial space company Blue Origin. The rocket has launched several times. On Nov. 23, 2015, New Shepard became the first rocket to ascend above the Kármán Line—100 km or 62 miles above the Earth's sea level, commonly considered the boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space—and successfully return to Earth to make a vertical landing. The booster repeated the feat five more times the following year, demonstrating the re-use of a rocket for the first time.

 


In addition, the company will exhibit a 1:1 scale mockup of its astronaut crew capsule developed for use with the New Shepard. Show attendees will be able to climb inside the six-seat capsule, recline in flight-ready seats and experience a simulated mission with real footage taken during the rocket’s previous flights. The crew module features the largest windows in spacecraft history, occupying more than one third of the capsule’s surface areas. The display will be one of the main attractions this year on Boeing Plaza during this 65th annual fly-in convention.

 


“We are very excited to come to EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2017 and showcase our reusable New Shepard rocket and crew capsule so everyone can experience what it's like to be an astronaut,” said Blue Origin president Rob Meyerson. “We hope to inspire the explorers of tomorrow, the ones who will help us achieve Blue Origin’s goal of millions of people living and working in space.”

 


In honor of EAA’s Space Day on July 28, the company will give away branded items to the first 1,000 visitors to its exhibit.

Historic Rocket on Display at EAA AirVenture

Blue Origin's rocket, which has made five successful flights demonstrating its reusability, will be one of the star attractions at this year's show

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