Blue Origin announces New Shepard 30 human spaceflight

Blue Origin has officially announced the New Shepard flight number 30 including a human crew of six people from different countries. This launch is happening on Tuesday, February 25, at 9:30 AM CST/15:30 UTC and the live webcast will start at T-35 minutes.

This will be the 10th overall human spaceflight for the New Shepard rocket. To date, the company has flown 47 humans in space.

New Shepard Flight 30 Crew (Source – Blue Origin)

Here are the crew details.

Lane Bess

Lane is the Principal and Founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, a family office fund that supports technology firms in multiple market sectors.

Jesus Calleja

Jesus is a Spanish TV host, mountaineer, and pilot. He hosts Calleja Planet, Flying by, and Calleja Universe, airing on Mediaset channels in Spain.

Elaine Chia Hyde

Entrepreneur, physicist, and pilot, Elain is the founder of Chicago Star, a news and media company. Elaine is also the founder of Eastside Enterprises, a research and development company focusing on AI-assisted media products.

Richard Scott

Richard is a reproductive endocrinologist, embryologist, professor, research scientist, philanthropist, entrepreneur and avid pilot. He was the founding partner and CEO of IVIRMA Global, the world’s largest fertility care group with clinics and labs in 10 countries.

Tushar Shah

Tushar is a partner and co-head of research at a quantitative hedge fund in New York City. He studied physics as an undergraduate at MIT and high-energy experimental particle physics for his PhD.

We’ll keep you posted with the Blue Origin New Shepard flight 30 launch schedule.

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