NS-18

Crew

Glen de Vries

Status: Deceased
6/29/1972 - 11/11/2021
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/13/2021
Last Flight: 10/13/2021

Glen de Vries is the co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata.

Killed in a plane crash in New Jersey.

Chris Boshuizen

Status: Retired
6/1/1977 -
Nationality: Australian
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/13/2021
Last Flight: 10/13/2021

Chris Boshuizen is partner at investment firm DCVC, and Planet co-founder.

Exact DoB unknown.

William Shatner

Status: Retired
3/22/1931 -
Nationality: Canadian
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/13/2021
Last Flight: 10/13/2021

William Shatner OC is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director, screenwriter, and singer. In his seven decades of acting, he became a cultural icon for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.

Audrey Powers

Status: Retired
2/1/1976 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/13/2021
Last Flight: 10/13/2021

Audrey Powers is the Vice President of Legal & Compliance for Blue Origin. Ms. Powers received a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from Purdue University and worked as an engineer for almost 10 years prior to becoming a lawyer.

Exact DoB unknown.

Rocket

New Shepard – Blue Origin

• Family: Blue Origin
• Length: 15 m
• Diameter: 3.7 m
• Launch Mass: 75 T
• Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 0 kg

The New Shepard was manufactured by Blue Origin with the first launch on 2015-04-29. New Shepard has 22 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 23 launches. The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.

Core Landing

NS4 successfully landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad on its fourth flight.

Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas – CR

New Shepard landing site.

Return to Launch Site – RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

Agency

Blue Origin – BO

• Type: Commercial
• Abbreviation: BO
• Administration: CEO: Jeff Bezos
• Founded: 2000
• Launchers: New Shepard | New Glenn
• Country: USA

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.