{"id":5958,"date":"2025-02-28T17:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/blue-origin-reveals-ns-31-crew-for-new-shepards-11th-human-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T09:39:49","slug":"blue-origin-reveals-ns-31-crew-for-new-shepards-11th-human-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/blue-origin-reveals-ns-31-crew-for-new-shepards-11th-human-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Origin Reveals NS-31 Crew For New Shepard\u2019s 11th Human Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren S\u00e1nchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share their own stories and create lasting impact that will inspire generations to come.<\/p>\n

Meet the NS-31 Crew<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Aisha Bowe<\/strong> – <\/strong>Aisha is a former NASA rocket scientist, entrepreneur, and global STEM advocate. She is the CEO of STEMBoard, an engineering firm recognized twice on the Inc. 5000 list of America\u2019s fastest-growing private companies, and the founder of LINGO, an edtech company on a mission to equip one million students with essential tech skills. Of Bahamian heritage, Aisha hopes her journey from community college to space will inspire young people in the Bahamas and around the world to pursue their dreams.<\/li>\n
  2. Amanda Nguyen<\/strong> – Amanda is a bioastronautics research scientist. She graduated from Harvard and conducted research at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, MIT, NASA, and the International Institute for Astronautical Sciences. Amanda worked on the last NASA shuttle mission, STS-135, and the Kepler exoplanet mission. For her advocacy for sexual violence survivors, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded TIME\u2019s Woman of the Year. As the first Vietnamese and Southeast Asian woman astronaut, Amanda\u2019s flight symbolizes reconciliation between the United States and Vietnam and will highlight science as a tool for peace.<\/li>\n
  3. Gayle King<\/strong> – Gayle is an award-winning journalist, co-host of CBS Mornings, editor-at-large of Oprah Daily, and the host of Gayle King in the House on SiriusXM radio. In a career spanning decades, King has been recognized as a gifted, compassionate interviewer able to break through the noise and create meaningful conversations. As someone who is staying open to new adventures, even ones that scare her, Gayle is honored to be part of Blue Origin\u2019s first all-female flight team and is looking forward to stepping out of her comfort zone.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. Katy Perry<\/strong> – Katy is the biggest-selling female artist in Capitol Records\u2019 history and one of the best-selling music artists of all time with over 115 billion streams. Aside from being a global pop superstar, Katy is an active advocate of many philanthropic causes, including as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador where she uses her powerful voice to ensure every child\u2019s right to health, education, equality, and protection, and her own Firework Foundation, which empowers children from underserved communities by igniting their inner light through the arts. Katy is honored to be a part of Blue Origin’s first all-female crew and hopes her journey encourages her daughter and others to reach for the stars, literally and figuratively.<\/li>\n
    2. Kerianne Flynn <\/strong>– After a successful career in fashion and human resources, Kerianne Flynn has spent the last decade channeling her energy into community-building through board service and nonprofit work with The Allen-Stevenson School, The High Line, and Hudson River Park. Passionate about the transformative power of storytelling, Kerianne has produced thought-provoking films such as This Changes Everything (2018), which explores the history of women in Hollywood, and LILLY (2024), a powerful tribute to fair-pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter. Kerianne has always been drawn to exploration, adventure, and space, and hopes her Blue Origin space flight inspires her son, Dex, and the next generation of dreamers to reach for the stars.<\/li>\n
    3. Lauren S\u00e1nchez<\/strong> – Lauren is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author, pilot, Vice Chair of the Bezos Earth Fund, and mother of three. In 2016, S\u00e1nchez, a licensed helicopter pilot, founded Black Ops Aviation, the first female-owned and operated aerial film and production company. S\u00e1nchez released her New York Times bestselling debut children’s book, The Fly Who Flew to Space, in 2024. Her work in aviation earned her the Elling Halvorson Vertical Flight Hall of Fame Award in 2024 for her expertise as a helicopter pilot and aviation businesswoman. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s goal is to inspire the next generation of explorers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      Also Read: What is Extravehicular Activity (EVA)?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

      This mission will be the 11th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 31st in its history. To date, the program has flown 52 people above the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line, the internationally recognized boundary of space. This is the first all-female flight crew since Valentina Tereshkova\u2019s solo spaceflight in 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Blue Origin announced the six people flying on its NS-31 mission. The crew includes Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, and Lauren S\u00e1nchez, who brought the mission together. She is honored to lead a team of explorers on a mission that will challenge their perspectives of Earth, empower them to share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}