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NS-33

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Overview

Destination: Suborbital
Mission: Tourism

Suborbital West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA
NS-5 - Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas

NS-33 is the 13th crewed flight for the New Shepard program and the 33rd in its history.

Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2025, 2:52 p.m.

Mission completed.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2025, 2:41 p.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • June 29, 2025, 1:59 p.m.

Official Webcast by Blue Origin has started


Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2025, 1:46 p.m.

New T-0.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 29, 2025, 12:35 p.m.

On hold awaiting launch site weather.


New Shepard

Family:
Configuration:

The New Shepard reusable launch system is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL), suborbital manned rocket that is being developed by Blue Origin as a commercial system for suborbital space tourism.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    15.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.7 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    75.0 T
  • Thrust
    490.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    New Shepard
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    New Shepard
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


NS-5

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: October 23, 2024
Last Flight: December 20, 2025
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 6
Landings Successful: 6
Previous NS-5 Flights

Landing Information

The New Shepard booster NS-5 has landed back on the landing pad.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Corn Ranch Landing Pad, West Texas.

RSS Kármán Line


Active Human Rated Crew On-board: 6 Crew Capacity: 6
Destination: Suborbital
Serial Number: None

Second human rated Crew Capsule for New Shepard.

Crew Capsule 2.0 Details

Crew


Allie Kuehner

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Carl Kuehner

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Freddie Rescigno Jr.

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Jim Sitkin

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Leland Larson

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Owolabi Salis

Tourist - configurations.Country.None - ( BO )

Status: Occasional Spaceflight

Date of Birth: None
Age: None

Blue Origin

Blue Origin

(BO)

CEO: Jeff Bezos Founded: 2000 Successes: 38 Failures: 1 Pending: 4

Agency Type:

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.

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