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8th crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers on a suborbital space tourism mission. Karsen Kitchen, a University of North Carolina student, became the youngest woman to cross the Kármán line.

Rob Ferl, director of the Astraeus Space Institute at the University of Florida, was the first NASA-funded researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial suborbital crew, activating plant samples at altitude to capture gene-expression snapshots for later analysis.