New Shepard | NS-18

New Shepard | NS-18

West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

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Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower costs and increase reliability. Blue Origin currently launches its New Shepard sub-orbital vehicle from its West Texas launch site, they are currently constructing a launch pad for their orbital vehicle New Glenn at Cape Canaveral LC-36.

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NS-18

NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.

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RSS First Step


Serial 2.0-2

Launch Crew Count 4

Status Active

Landing Time 2021-10-13T15:00:00+0000


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Crew

Audrey Powers

Tourist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1976-02-01

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Chris Boshuizen

Tourist

Nationality Australian

Date Of Birth 1977-06-01

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Glen de Vries

Tourist

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1972-06-29

Deceased 2021-11-11

Status Deceased

Type Private


William Shatner

Tourist

Nationality Canadian

Date Of Birth 1931-03-22

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


New Shepard


Height 15.00 Meters

Max Stages 1

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 490 kN

Diameter 3.70 Meters

Mass To LEO 0 kg

Liftoff Mass 75 Tonnes


Launch Success 23

Consecutive Success 1

Maiden Flight 2015-04-29

Launch Failures 1


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Serial NS-4

Status active

Flight Proven Yes

Flights 9


Landing Attempt Yes

Landing Success Yes

Type RTLS

Location CR


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SwGustav

2021-10-13T15:13:32+0000

Passengers were recovered, successful flight

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SwGustav

2021-10-13T14:49:57+0000

Liftoff

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SwGustav

2021-10-12T18:20:18+0000

Adjusting T-0

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Nosu

2021-10-10T16:27:05+0000

Pushed by a day due to forecasted winds.

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Nosu

2021-10-04T16:05:36+0000

Targeting a launch time of 13:30 UTC per latest Blue Origin statement.

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SwGustav

2021-09-27T13:28:43+0000

Adding the launch

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