Overview

• Mission NS-36 lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas at 8:40 a.m. CDT and concluded with safe capsule touchdown and booster recovery.
• The flight reached an apogee of about 346,791 feet and lasted 10 minutes 21 seconds, giving passengers a few minutes of weightlessness above the Kármán Line.
• Blue Origin identified the previously anonymous passenger as Will Lewis after the mission, joining Jeff Elgin, Danna Karagussova, Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman and Vitalii Ostrovsky.
• This was the program’s 15th human mission, and the company reports New Shepard has now carried 86 humans (80 individuals) to space.
• Blue Origin does not publish ticket prices; reservations require a $150,000 deposit, and researchers continue to warn that rocket soot and emissions from tourism flights can harm the upper atmosphere.