Blue Origin’s fifth manned spaceflight, a mission called NS-21, is scheduled to launch from the company’s site in West Texas on June 4, 2022.
On NS-21, Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle will carry six people – Katya Echazarreta, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, Victor Vescovo, Hamish Harding and Evan Dick – to suborbital space and back.
Echazarreta, 26, will become the first woman born in Mexico and the youngest American to reach space. Dick would become the very first New Shepard crew member to repeat; it also participated in the NS-19 mission, launched in December 2021.
You can read more about the six passengers in our NS-21 crew member story. And you can see photos of the spaceflyers and their mission here in this gallery.
Related: Blue Origin’s NS-21 mission (reference)
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Twenty-six-year-old science communicator Katya Echazarreta will become the first Mexican-born woman to reach space and the youngest American to do so. His seat on NS-21 was sponsored by the non-profit organization Space For Humanity; she will be the first "citizen astronaut" from Space For Humanity; reach the final frontier.
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Civil production engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, 28, will become the second Brazilian to reach space. His seat on NS-21 was sponsored by the Crypto Space Agency.
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Jaison Robinson was a runner-up on the TV show "Survivor: Samoa" in 2009. He then founded the commercial real estate company JJM Investments and co-founded an investment company called Dream Variations Ventures.
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Victor Vescovo is co-founder of private equity firm Insight Equity. He is also an accomplished adventurer who has completed the “Explorer’s Grand Slam”; which includes climbing the highest peak of the seven continents and skiing to the North and South Poles.
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Hamish Harding is president of Action Aviation, a business jet brokerage firm he founded in 2004. He is also an adventurer who holds several aviation world records. And in 2021, he dived Challenger Deep — the deepest known point on Earth’s seabed — with Victor Vescovo in a two-person submarine.
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Engineer and investor Evan Dick also served on Blue Origin’s NS-19 mission, which launched in December 2021. He will become the company’s first regular passenger.
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The six NS-21 crew members in their flight suits.
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Hamish Harding, Jaison Robinson and Katya Echazarreta during training for the NS-21 mission.
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Evan Dick holds the patch for his previous Blue Origin mission, NS-19, launched in December 2021.
