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Blue Origin Launches Six on New Shepard, Reveals Identity of Once-Anonymous Passenger

The brief suborbital mission marked the program’s 15th human flight with one flyer’s name released only after touchdown.

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Overview

  • New Shepard’s NS-36 lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:40 a.m. CDT and landed about 10 minutes, 21 seconds later.
  • Blue Origin said the capsule reached roughly 346,800 feet, crossing the Kármán Line for a few minutes of weightlessness.
  • The company identified the full crew post-flight as Jeff Elgin, Danna Karagussova, Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman, Vitalii Ostrovsky, and Will Lewis.
  • Blue Origin live-streamed the flight, calling it the 36th New Shepard mission and the 15th to carry people.
  • Seat pricing remains opaque, with a required deposit and past auctions cited, as researchers continue to raise environmental and equity concerns over routine space tourism.