Blue Origin’s fifth manned spaceflight, a mission dubbed NS-21, is scheduled for launch on June 4, 2022 from the company’s West Texas facility.
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 and from suborbital space.
Echazarreta, 26, will become the first Mexican-born woman and the youngest American to reach space. Dick becomes the first-ever returning New Shepard crew member; He also flew on the NS-19 mission, launched in December 2021.
You can read more about all six passengers in our history of the NS-21 crew members. And you can see photos of the spacemen and their mission here in this gallery.
Related: Mission NS-21 from Blue Origin (Reference)
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Science communicator Katya Echazarreta, 26, will become the first Mexican-born woman to reach space and the youngest American to do so. Her seat on NS-21 was sponsored by the non-profit organization Space For Humanity; She will be Space For Humanity’s first “citizen astronaut.” to reach the final frontier.
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Civil engineer Victor Correa Hespanha, 28, will be 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 finalist on the TV show “Survivor: Samoa” in 2009. He later founded 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 the private equity firm Insight Equity. He is also an accomplished adventurer who has the “Explorer’s Grand Slam” These include climbing the highest peaks on all seven continents and skiing to the North and South Poles.
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Hamish Harding is Chairman of Action Aviation, a business jet brokerage firm he founded in 2004. He is also an adventurer, holding multiple world records in aviation. And in 2021, he dove to the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on Earth’s ocean floor. with Victor Vescovo in a two-person submarine.
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Engineer and investor Evan Dick also flew on Blue Origin’s NS-19 mission, which launched in December 2021. He will become the company’s very first repeat passenger.
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The six crew members of the NS-21 in their flight suits.
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Hamish Harding, Jaison Robinson and Katya Echazarreta training for the NS-21 mission.
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Evan Dick holds the patch from his previous Blue Origin mission, NS-19, which launched in December 2021.
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