When and where to watch the launch of Jesús Calleja into space, the first non-astronaut Spaniard to do so

On Tuesday, Jesús Calleja will become the first non-astronaut in Spain to travel to space and the third Spaniard in history to make this trip, preceded only by astronauts Pedro Duque and Miguel López-Alegría. For this reason, Telecinco has organised a special programme on Tuesday, Calleja in space. The launch live , to narrate his adventure aboard the New Shepard rocket capsule. It will begin at 3:45 p.m. and Carlos Franganillo and María Casado will be on set offering information about the presenter's historic journey. The take-off will be at 4:30 p.m. from Texas and the trip will end at around 4:55 p.m. Calleja is scheduled to speak immediately afterwards.

On the 11-minute journey, the astronauts soar beyond the Kármán line, the internationally recognised boundary of space. As journalist Natalia Marcos recounted in December 2022 in EL PAÍS, this is the last project of the Paolo Vasile era and was described by the Italian as his “final flourish” before leaving his position as CEO of Mediaset España . For this adventure, the Spanish media group has partnered with Amazon Prime Video and Zanskar Producciones.

The New Shepard rocket from the space company Blue Origin will take off and Jesús Calleja will become the first presenter to do television outside of planet Earth. The former astronaut and former Minister of Science Pedro Duque and the journalist Mercedes Milá will be some of the collaborators who will participate live in the program. Juan Carlos Cortés, aeronautical engineer and director of the Spanish Space Agency (AEE), and Raúl Torres -CEO of PLD Space, a Spanish company in the aerospace sector, pioneer in the development of reusable launchers, and builder of the MIURA rocket family-, will also participate.

Telecinco News journalist David Jiménez, who has accompanied Calleja to the United States to document the days leading up to the trip to space, will be reporting live on the minute-by-minute process from the tracking tower at the Blue Origin base in Texas. Meanwhile, journalist Ruth Méndez will be at Jesús Calleja's home in León, where his friends and family will gather to watch the launch live.

The journalist José Rocamora will be at the School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he will be able to comment on the launch and the trip of the New Shepard with a group of students from the Space and Microgravity Experimentation Laboratory. Throughout the program, Carlos Franganillo and María Casado will introduce supporting videos sent by various personalities who have traveled with Calleja on the many adventures of Plantea Calleja . Ana Patricia Botín, David Bisbal, Pedro Piqueras, Omar Montes, Eugenia Martínez de Irujo and Juanito Oyarzábal will be some of them.