New Shepard
Reusable American suborbital tourism rocket
Suborbital, not orbital — New Shepard takes paying passengers past the Kármán line for a few minutes of weightlessness, then both the booster and capsule land separately under parachutes and rockets. Blue Origin flies it from West Texas; Jeff Bezos rode the first crewed flight in July 2021.
We track every New Shepard launch.
Service since 2012
2012 to 2026
2012 first flight 2025 peak (9 launches)
- launches
- 39
- success
- 95%
- upcoming
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Full launch history
| 2026 | ||||
Jan 22, 2026 | NS-38 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard | |||
| 2025 | ||||
Dec 20, 2025 | NS-37 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard | |||
Oct 8, 2025 | NS-36 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Sep 18, 2025 | NS-35 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 5 | |||
Aug 3, 2025 | NS-34 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Jun 29, 2025 | NS-33 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 5 | |||
May 31, 2025 | NS-32 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Apr 14, 2025 | NS-31 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 5 | |||
Feb 25, 2025 | NS-30 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Feb 4, 2025 | NS-29 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 5 | |||
| 2024 | ||||
Nov 22, 2024 | NS-28 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Oct 23, 2024 | NS-27 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 5 | |||
Aug 29, 2024 | NS-26 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
May 19, 2024 | NS-25 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
| 2023 | ||||
Dec 19, 2023 | NS-24 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
| 2022 | ||||
Sep 12, 2022Failure | NS-23 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
Aug 4, 2022 | NS-22 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Jun 4, 2022 | NS-21 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Mar 31, 2022 | NS-20 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
| 2021 | ||||
Dec 11, 2021 | NS-19 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Oct 13, 2021 | NS-18 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Aug 26, 2021 | NS-17 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
Jul 20, 2021 | NS-16 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Apr 14, 2021 | NS-15 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
Jan 14, 2021 | NS-14 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 4 | |||
| 2020 | ||||
Oct 13, 2020 | NS-13 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
| 2019 | ||||
Dec 11, 2019 | Crew Capsule 2.0 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
May 2, 2019 | Crew Capsule 2.0 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
Jan 23, 2019 | Crew Capsule 2.0 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
| 2018 | ||||
Jul 18, 2018 | Crew Capsule 2.0 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
Apr 29, 2018 | Suborbital Flight Experiment Monitor-2 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
| 2017 | ||||
Dec 12, 2017 | New Shepard 3 first flight USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 3 | |||
| 2016 | ||||
Oct 5, 2016 | New Shepard crew capsule USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 2 | |||
Jun 19, 2016 | New Shepard crew capsule USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 2 | |||
Apr 2, 2016 | New Shepard crew capsule USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 2 | |||
Jan 22, 2016 | NS-3 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 2 | |||
| 2015 | ||||
Nov 23, 2015 | NS-2 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 2 | |||
Apr 29, 2015Partial failure | New Shepard maiden flight USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard 1 | |||
| 2012 | ||||
Oct 19, 2012 | NS-0 USA • Blue Origin • New Shepard | |||