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Lane Bess

American - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1960
Age: 65


Lane is the Principal and Founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, a family fund supporting technology firms that innovate and disrupt across multiple market sectors. Lane is best known for having helped start and build two of the most important cybersecurity companies in the public markets today, Zscaler (NASDQ) and Palo Alto Networks (NYSE). She also serves as a Trustee at Carnegie Mellon University and, along with his family, supports philanthropic interests across health and social issues. Date of birth is unknown

New Shepard | NS-19

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Dec. 11, 2021, 3 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

NS-19 is the third crewed New Shepard flight, carrying two honorary guests and four paying customers.

Suborbital NS-4 - Flight Proven ( ) Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas
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New Shepard | NS-30

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
Feb. 25, 2025, 3:49 p.m.
Status: Success
Mission:

NS-30 is the 10th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 30th in its 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.


Soyuz 2.1a
Success
1 day, 5 hours ago
Progress MS-30 (91P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.


Long March 2
Success
1 day, 19 hours ago
SuperView Neo 1-03 & 04
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Commercial Earth observation satellites (~540 kg each) built by CAST for China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd., with resolution down to …


Falcon 9
Success
1 day, 23 hours ago
Starlink Group 12-13
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 2 hours ago
Nova-C IM-2 & Others
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

This is the second mission of Nova-C lunar lander developed and built by Intuitive Machines. This time it carries a NASA payload called PRIME-1 (Pola…


New Shepard
Success
3 days, 11 hours ago
NS-30
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

NS-30 is the 10th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 30th in its history.