Blue Origin NS-26

Launch, orbit & landing data: Designation  none Launch date - time  29 August 2024 - 13:07:03 UTC Launch site  Corn Ranch, LS-1 Launch vehicle  New Shepard (NS-4 / F11) Spacecraft  RSS First Step F10 Manufacturer / Operator  Blue Origin Mass (kg)  12519 kg?? Crew size   6 Earth flight:    Apogee  105 km Landing date Capsule - time  29 August 2024 - 13:17:11 UTC Landing location  Corn Ranch Mission type  Sub-orbital human spaceflight, Apogee: 105 km Flight Duration  10 min, 8 sec Landing crew  Launch crew

Launched Crew (6 pers.):

Description:

• Blue Origin NS-26 was a sub-orbital spaceflight mission, operated by Blue Origin, launched on August 29, 2024, using the New Shepard rocket.

Mission details:

• The flight's passengers included NASA-funded scientist Rob Ferl who is a professor at the University of Florida. During the flight, he performed experiments studying the change of gene expression in one type of plant when the plant was exposed to microgravity and other different phases of flight. Professor Ferl was the first NASA-funded researcher flying aboard New Shepard (or indeed aboard any of the commercial suborbital space vehicles of the 21st century). His flight and experiments were funded by NASA's Flight Opportunities program.
• Nicolina Elrick is an entrepreneur. She is a British citizen from Scotland and also a permanent resident of Singapore, and intends to become a Singapore citizen.
• Eiman Jahangir's flight was sponsored by the cryptocurrency spaceflight accelerator organization MoonDAO.[5] Before and after his flight he participated in two science research studies: Vanderbilt’s Clonal Hematopoiesis and Inflammation in the Vasculature (CHIVE) registry and biorepository, and the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) study at Cornell University.
• Karsen Kitchen became the youngest woman and youngest American to cross the Kármán line (100 km) at 21 years old. Anastatia Mayers was at the time the youngest woman to fly to space (above 50 miles altitude, US definition of space) and remained so after Karsen Kitchen's flight.

External links:

• Wikipedia: Description mission