NS-31
Success
APR 14202513:30:00 UTC11th crewed New Shepard flight and the first all-female spaceflight since Valentina Tereshkova flew Vostok 6 in June 1963. The crew of six included singer Katy Perry, CBS News anchor Gayle King, journalist and pilot Lauren Sánchez, civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen, aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe, and filmmaker Kerianne Flynn.
Nguyen became the first woman of Vietnamese descent to reach space; Bowe the first person of Bahamian descent.
LIFTOFF
APR 14 202513:30:00 UTC
Success
launched from Corn Ranch
aboard New Shepard 5 NS-31 into Suborbital
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
Vehicle components · 2
- 01 Booster NS5.3apogee 106.7 km
- 02 Capsule RSS Kármán Lineapogee 106.8 km
Payload
Blue Origin NS-31
Space tourism
Passengers · 6
- 01 Aisha Bowe from USA
- 02 Amanda Nguyen from USA
- 03 Gayle King from USA
- 04 Katy Perry from USA
- 05 Kerianne Flynn from USA
- 06 Lauren Sánchez Bezos from USA