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.
NS-18
NS-18 is the second crewed New Shepard flight, carrying 4 paying customers.
RSS First Step
Serial 2.0-2
Launch Crew Count 4
Status Active
Landing Time 2021-10-13T15:00:00+0000
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 27
Consecutive Success 5
Maiden Flight 2015-04-29
Launch Failures 1
Core
Serial NS-4
Status active
Flight Proven Yes
Flights 12
Landing Attempt Yes
Landing Success Yes
Type RTLS
Location CR
Updates
SwGustav
2021-10-13T15:13:32+0000
Passengers were recovered, successful flight
SwGustav
2021-10-13T14:49:57+0000
Liftoff
SwGustav
2021-10-12T18:20:18+0000
Adjusting T-0
Nosu
2021-10-10T16:27:05+0000
Pushed by a day due to forecasted winds.
Nosu
2021-10-04T16:05:36+0000
Targeting a launch time of 13:30 UTC per latest Blue Origin statement.
SwGustav
2021-09-27T13:28:43+0000
Adding the launch
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