Blue Origin's 10th human flight, NS-30, will lift off from Launch Site One in West Texas on Tuesday, February 25. The New Shepard launch window opens at 9:30 AM CST / 15:30 UTC. The webcast will start at T-35 minutes. 

 

Additionally, Blue Origin released the NS-30 mission patch. A few of the symbols embedded include: 

• The mountain represents Spanish mountaineer and adventurer Jesús Calleja, who has climbed the world’s Seven Summits.  
• The airplane and clouds represent Jesús Calleja, Elaine Hyde, Dr. Richard Scott, and Tushar Shah, all of whom are pilots.  
• The dove with the olive branch represents Jesús Calleja and Lane Bess’ hope for peace for all. 
• The Southern Cross represents Elaine Hyde’s Australian and Singaporean heritage.  
• The Roman numeral II along the bottom edge represents Lane’s second flight.  
• The winding road on the mountain leading to the crew capsule represents the road to space each of the crew’s astronauts have taken. 

For more information on the crew, please see our previous blog post below.

 

Blue Origin Announces Crew for New Shepard’s 30th Mission

Blue Origin today revealed the six people flying on its NS-30 mission. The crew includes: Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Elaine Chia Hyde, Dr. Richard Scott, Tushar Shah, and an undisclosed sixth crew member. Lane is flying on New Shepard for the second time, the fourth astronaut to do so.   

This mission is the 10th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 30th in its history. To date, the program has flown 47 humans above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.  

Meet the Crew 

Lane Bess 

Lane is the Principal and Founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, a family office fund supporting technology firms that innovate and disrupt across multiple market sectors. He has led and built some of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies, including Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler, both of which he helped lead to IPO. Lane also serves as a Trustee at Carnegie Mellon University and supports philanthropic interests across health and social issues. Lane first flew to space on NS-19 on December 11, 2021. 

Jesús Calleja 

Jesús is a Spanish TV host, mountaineer, pilot, and lifelong adventurer. He currently hosts Calleja Planet, Flying By, and Calleja Universe, which air on Mediaset channels in Spain. Jesús’s adventures have taken him to every corner of the world, including the Seven Summits, the North and South Poles, and numerous deserts, active volcanoes, and ancient sinkholes. A passionate race car driver, Jesús has participated in numerous international racing competitions, including four editions of the Dakar Rally and a 3,400-mile journey from the French Pyrenees to Dakar, Senegal.  

Elaine Chia Hyde 

Elaine is an entrepreneur, physicist, and pilot. She is the founder of Chicago Star, a news and media company, and Eastside Enterprises, a research and development company focused on AI-assisted media products. Elaine was born in Singapore and grew up in Australia. Space has captivated her imagination since childhood. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, she studied business and physics with the goal of inventing experiments to be conducted in space. Elaine soon immigrated to the United States, where she worked as an intern at the University of Pennsylvania and later became a research scientist. Elaine, her husband, also a physicist, and their five children live in Florida. 

Dr. Richard Scott 

Dr. Scott is a reproductive endocrinologist, embryologist, professor, research scientist, philanthropist, entrepreneur, and avid pilot. He was a founding partner and CEO of IVIRMA Global, the world’s largest fertility care group with clinics and laboratories in 10 countries. Dr. Scott is an adjunct professor at Yale University and the University of South Carolina (Greenville) Medical Schools, and founded The Foundation for Embryonic Competence, a nonprofit focused on reproduction research, where he also serves as Scientific Director. He has served on the national boards of Directors of the Resolve and the American Fertility Associations, the two largest patient advocacy organizations for fertility care. He and his wife have been married for 45 years and have four children. 

Tushar Shah 

Tushar is a partner and the 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, also at MIT. He and his wife, Sara, are philanthropists focused on addressing issues related to poverty, health, and education. They have two children. 

The flight date will be announced soon. 

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