flown by Blue Origin USA

NS-22

Success
AUG 04202213:56:07 UTC

New Shepard carried six passengers on a suborbital flight of about ten minutes, among them Sara Sabry, the first Egyptian in space, and Mário Ferreira, the first Portuguese person in space.

Vanessa O'Brien completed the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta, becoming the first woman to have reached the summit of Everest, the bottom of Challenger Deep and space.

launched from Corn Ranch

aboard New Shepard 4 NS-22 into Suborbital

Broadcast

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Vehicle components · 2

  • 01 Booster NS4.8
    apogee 106.9 km
  • 02 Capsule RSS First Step
    apogee 107.1 km

Payload

Blue Origin NS-22

Space tourism

Passengers · 6

  • 01 Coby Cotton from USA
  • 02 Mário Ferreira from Portugal
  • 03 Vanessa O'Brien from UK
  • 04 Clint Kelly III from USA
  • 05 Sara Sabry from Egypt
  • 06 Steve Young from USA

last updated Oct 27, 2026