Lauren Sánchez

American - (BO)

Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: Sept. 19, 1969
Age: 56

Lauren Wendy Sánchez is an American journalist, author and philanthropist who gained fame as an entertainment reporter and news anchor. She is a licensed pilot and founder of Black Ops Aviation. In 2023, she became engaged to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

Spaceflight Record

Lauren Sánchez flew on one previous launch(es).

New Shepard | NS-31

Blue Origin | United States of America
Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
April 14, 2025, 1:30 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

NS-31 is the 11th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history.

Suborbital NS-5 - 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

Long March 3B/E

Success

4 days, 4 hours ago

Fengyun-4C

Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

China's geostationary meteorological satellite program FY-4 (Feng Yun 4) is the second generation of chinese geostationary meteorological satellites.

Long March 8A

Success

4 days, 20 hours ago

SatNet LEO Group 17

Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

A batch of 9 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Chinese state owned SatNet constellation operated by the China Satellite Network Group.…

Soyuz 2.1a

Success

5 days, 6 hours ago

Obzor-R No.1

43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Assignment of payloads to this launch is uncertain. The Russian Obzor-R satellite is a planned X-band radar earth observation satellite desi…

LVM-3 (GSLV Mk III)

Success

6 days, 16 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

1 week 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 …