NS-22
New Shepard
Blue Origin
Crew
Coby Cotton
Status: Retired
7/17/1987 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Coby is one of the five cofounders of the YouTube channel Dude Perfect, which he co-founded with his college roommates Garrett Hilbert, Tyler Toney, Cody Jones, and his brother, Cory Cotton.
Mário Ferreira
Status: Retired
1/15/1968 -
Nationality: Portuguese
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Mário is a Portuguese entrepreneur, investor, and President of Pluris Investments Group, which includes more than 40 companies spanning tourism, media (TV and radio), real estate, insurance, and renewable energy.
Vanessa O’Brien
Status: Retired
12/2/1964 -
Nationality: British-American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Vanessa Audi Rhys O'Brien is a British and American mountaineer, explorer, aquanaut, author and former business executive. On June 12, 2020, O'Brien became the first woman to reach Earth's highest and lowest points, receiving a Guinness World Record. She became the first American woman to climb K2 and the first British woman to climb K2 (as a result of her dual nationality) on 28 July 2017, successfully leading a team of 12 members to the summit and back on her third attempt. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and a Member of The Scientific Exploration Society (SES).
Clint Kelly III
Status: Retired
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Clint managed research and technology programs focused primarily on computer science and robotics while in government and in industry. In 1984, he started the Autonomous Land Vehicle project while at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contributing to the development of the technology used in driverless cars.
Sara Sabry
Status: Retired
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Nationality: Egyptian
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Sara is an Egyptian mechanical and biomedical engineer, and founder of Deep Space Initiative (DSI), a nonprofit aiming to increase accessibility for space research. She became Egypt’s first female analog astronaut in 2021 after completing a two-week Moon mission simulating the extreme conditions astronauts experience in orbital space. Sara earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at the American University in Cairo and a master’s in biomedical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano.
Steve Young
Status: Retired
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/4/2022
Last Flight: 8/4/2022
Steve Young is the former CEO of Young’s Communications LLC (Y-COM), the largest telecommunications contractor in the state of Florida under his leadership from 1992 to 2021.
Mission
NS-22
Type: Tourism
NS-22 is the sixth crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers.
Trajectory
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Location
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Corn Ranch, USA
23 rockets have launched from Corn Ranch, USA.
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 has landed at Corn Ranch Landing Pad after its eighth 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.
