Clint Kelly III

American - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Clint managed research and technology programs focused primarily on computer science and robotics while in government and in industry. In 1984, he started the Autonomous Land Vehicle project while at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contributing to the development of the technology used in driverless cars.

Spaceflight Record

Clint Kelly III flew on two previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-22

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Aug. 4, 2022, 1:56 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-22 is the sixth crewed New Shepard flight, carrying six passengers.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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New Shepard | NS-36

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Oct. 8, 2025, 1:40 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-36 is the 15th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 36th in the New Shepard program's history.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

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CEO: Jeff Bezos

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.

Recent Launches

Soyuz 2.1a

In Flight

5 hours, 7 minutes ago

Obzor-R No.1

Unknown Pad - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite designed by TsSKB-Progress. In 2012, the development of the Ar…

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Success

1 day, 15 hours ago

BlueBird Block 2 #1

Satish Dhawan Space Centre Second Launch Pad - Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India

AST SpaceMobile’s Block 2 BlueBird satellites are designed to deliver up to 10 times the bandwidth capacity of the BlueBird Block 1 satellites, requi…

Long March 12A

Success

2 days, 17 hours ago

Demo Flight

Long March 12A Pad - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

First test launch of CASC/SAST’s Long March 12A rocket, with a dummy payload. The rocket’s 1st stage attempted to land on a landing pad about 300 km …

HANBIT-Nano

Failure

2 days, 18 hours ago

Spaceward

HANBIT Pad - Alcântara Space Center, Federative Republic of Brazil

Maiden orbital launch attempt for the South Korean start-up Innospace and its HANBIT-Nano small launch vehicle. Onboard this flight are five small sa…

H3-22

Failure

3 days, 17 hours ago

Michibiki 5 (QZS-5)

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

QZSS (Quasi Zenith Satellite System) is a Japanese satellite navigation system operating from inclined, elliptical geosynchronous orbits to achieve o…