New Shepard Mission NS-25

Blue Origin successfully completed its seventh human spaceflight and the 25th flight for the New Shepard program on May 19, 2024. Our astronaut crew included: Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Kenneth L. Hess, Carol Schaller, Gopi Thotakura, and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight, who was selected by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 as the nation’s first Black astronaut candidate but never had the opportunity to fly.