Everyone launches to Jeff Bezos’ blue origins into space

On Tuesday (February 25), Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launched its 10th space tour mission using its new Shepard Rocket, bringing six passengers into space under orbit. This is Blue Origin’s fourth crew flight in the past 12 months, with an untugboat flight three weeks ago on its second new Shepard launch this year.

Blue Origin launched its first space visitor in July 2021.He has built a new Shepard rocket in 2022 after an untugged flight accident. Space tourism is scheduled to resume in May 2024.

So far, Blue Origin has pushed 52 civilians into space. Including its founder Bezos, some company employees, and many celebrities and business figures. Some passengers loved the experience so much that they rebooked and flew several times.

The company keeps its prices quiet. Its main competitor in orbital space tourism, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic currently has $600,000 per seat.

Each blue passenger of origin, in the opposite order of the start date:

• Lane Bess (February 25, 2025, December 11, 2021): Tech Investor and Founder of BESS Ventures and Advisory. Before becoming an investor, Bess took on executive roles for AT&T, Trend Micro and Palo Alto Networks.
• Jesus Kaleja (February 25, 2025): Spanish TV show host, pilot and mountaineer. He is currently hosting Caalleja planet, flying and Calleja Universeit airs on the MediaSet channel in Spain. Calleja is an avid adventurer who has been to the Pole and Seven Summits. He is also a passionate racer.
• Elaine Chia Hyde (February 25, 2025): Founder of Chicago Star, a news and media company, and Eastside Enterprises, a research and development company focused on AI-assisted media products.
• Richard Scott (February 25, 2025): Reproductive endocrinologist and founder of Everma Global, Everma Global’s largest fertility care group. Scott also builds the foundations of embryonic capacity, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reproductive research. He is also an avid pilot.
• Tushar Shah (25 February 2025): Partner and co-director of research for New York City-based quantitative hedge funds.
• Undisclosed 6th member (February 25, 2025): There is a sixth crew member with an NS-30 that would rather not be named. His Unification reads R. Wilson, based on images of the crew shared by Blue Origin.
• Emily Calandrelli (November 22, 2024): MIT engineers, TV hosts and authors are known on the internet as @Thespacegal. In her performance Xploration Outer Space, she became the first American woman to become the sole host of the National Radio Science Series. Calandrelli is also the host of Netflix’s Emily Wonder Lab and Emily’s Science Lab on YouTube.
• Marc Hagle (November 22, 2024 and March 31, 2022): CEO of Tricor International, a Florida-based residential and commercial real estate development company.
• Sharon Hagle (November 22, 2024 and March 31, 2022): Marc Hagle’s wife and founder of SpaceKids Global is an educational nonprofit that is committed to encouraging elementary school students to pursue careers in Steam (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).
• Austin Kurtel (November 22, 2024): Risk management professionals in the financial services industry. He won a seat in the moon giveaway.
• James JD Russell (November 22, 2024): Founder of Infohoa, a community management technology company. He is also the founder of the nonprofit Victoria Russell Foundation in honor of his late daughter.
• Henry Wolfond (November 22, 2024): Chairman and CEO of Bayshore Capital. He is a lifelong pilot and moonlight, a professional pilot in Charter, MEDEVAC and organ retrieval flight.
• Nicolina Elrick (August 29, 2024): Entrepreneurs founded several IT companies in the 1990s. She is a certified helicopter pilot based in Singapore.
• Rob Ferl (August 29, 2024): Professor and director of the Astraeus Space Institute at the University of Florida is dedicated to studying how biology copes with extreme conditions. Ferl became the first NASA funded to conduct experiments as part of a commercial suborbital space crew.
• Eugine Grin (August 29, 2024): one Ukrainian immigrants working in real estate and finance.
• Eiman Jahangir (August 29, 2024): Cardiologist and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His seat is sponsored by Moondao, a cryptocurrency organization focused on space travel.
• Carson Kitchen (August 29, 2024): student Founder of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Orbitelle, it is an initiative to encourage women to pursue careers in the space industry. She makes history the youngest woman ever to cross the Kármán series. Her father, Jim Kitchen, headed to the Blue Origin mission in 2022.
• Ephraim Rabin (29 August 2024): Founder and CEO of Parchem Fine & Specialty Chemicals, a company that focuses on a dedicated supply chain of raw materials.
• Mason Angel (May 19, 2024): Founder of professional venture capital funds, focusing on new industrial technologies.
• Ed Dwight (May 19, 2024): Sculptors use art as a medium to tell stories about black history. His over 130 public works are installed in museums and public places in the United States and Canada. Dwight was born in 1933 when he was 90 years old. His seat is sponsored by Human Space, a nonprofit that is committed to democratizing the access to space.
• Sylvain Chiron (May 19, 2024): Founder of Brasserie Mont Blanc, one of the largest craft breweries in France. Born in the French Alps, he was a lifelong pilot and skier and obtained a pilot’s license at the age of 16.
• Kenneth L. Hess (May 19, 2024): Software engineers and entrepreneurs developed a family of genealogy manufacturers product range in the 1990s. His company was acquired by Ancestry.com in 2003. Founder of Science Partners, a nonprofit organization designed to increase STEM literacy rates.
• Carol Schaller (May 19, 2024): Retired CPA. Since learning in 2017 that she might be blind, Scheller has traveled to 25 countries around the world.
• Gopi Thotakura (May 19, 2024): Pilot and pilot. He is the co-founder of Preserve Life Corp, a center for holistic and applied wellness.
• Coby Cotton (August 4, 2022): “Dude Perfect,” the co-founder of the popular sports entertainment YouTube channel. His Blue Origin Ticket was sponsored by cryptocurrency collective Moondao.
• Mário Ferreira (August 4, 2022): Portuguese entrepreneurs own commercial enterprises in the fields of tourism, hotel, real estate and photography. He was the first person in Portugal to enter space.
• Vanessa O’Brien (August 4, 2022): British mountaineer. She holds the Guinness World Record and is the first woman to reach extremes on land (Everest), at sea (Challenger Deep) and in the air (the kármán route that flies with blue origin).
• Clint Kelly III (August 4, 2022): Retired engineer at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). His automatic land vehicle project was founded in the 1980s and has contributed to the development of autonomous driving technology.
• Sara Sabry (August 4, 2022): Engineer and founder of Deep Space Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to space research. She was the first person in Egypt to fly to space.
• Steve Young (August 4, 2022): Young’s Communications, former CEO of the restaurant and family business, is a telecommunications installation company. He is the owner of Pineapples, a restaurant in Melbourne, Florida.
• Evan Dick (June 4, 2022 and December 11, 2021): Retired engineers and tech investors. He is an executive member of investment firm Dick Holdings.
• Katya echazarreta (June 4, 2022): Mexican electrical engineer and host of popular science programs on YouTube.
• Hamish Harding (June 4, 2022): Chairman of Dubai-based aircraft operations company Action Airlines and founder of private equity investment firm Action Group. He has three Guinness World Records related to adventure. (Harding announced his death on June 23, along with four other passengers aboard the 58-year-old Oceangate submersible.)
• Victor Correa Hespanha (June 4, 2022): Brazilian civil production engineer. Hespanha has won a lottery sponsored by the Crypto Paces Agency, an organization funded by the NFT community through MINT proceeds.
• Jaison Robinson (June 4, 2022): Founder of British commercial and residential real estate company JJM Investments and co-founder of private investment company Dream Variations Ventures.
• Victor Vescovo (June 4, 2022): Co-founder of Insight Equity, a private equity firm in New York.
• Marty Allen (March 31, 2022): Venture investors and turnover supervisors. Allen is known for successfully reorganizing struggling retailers, including the American Party and the California Closet Company.
• Jim Kitchen (March 31, 2022): Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina and Entrepreneurs. The Kitchen is a golden member of the Travelers Century Club, a club for people visiting 100 or more countries. He has traveled to all 193 UN-recognized countries.
• George Neilder (March 31, 2022): Former FAA executive and president of commercial space technology, a company specializing in space industry consulting and mission brokerage.
• Gary Lay (March 31, 2022): Chief Architect of Blue Origin’s new Shepard Rocket.
• Laura Shepard Churchley (December 11, 2021): Astronaut Alan Shepard’s daughter (named after the new Shepard Rocket). She is the chairman of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides guidance to college students and STEM scholars.
• Michael Strahan (December 11, 2021): Good Morning America Co-host and former NFL player.
• Dylan Taylor (December 11, 2021): Investor and CEO of space exploration company Voyager Space Holdings. He is also the founder of Human Space, a non-profit space.
• Cameron Beth (December 11, 2021): Content creator and son of Lane Bess.
• Chris PoshuZen (October 13, 2021): Co-founder of Planet Labs, a San Francisco-based Earth Imaging Satellite Company.
• Glen de Vries (October 13, 2021): Co-founder and co-CEO of Medidata Solutions, the software company provides solutions for clinical trials.
• William Shatner (October 13, 2021): The actor is best known for his portrayal of Captain USS Enterprise in Star Trek TV series and movies. Shatner is the largest man in space flying with blue origins at the age of 90.
• Audrey Powers (October 13, 2021): Blue Origin is Vice President of Mission and Flight Operations.
• Wally Funk (July 20, 2021): American Airlines pioneer. Funk is the biggest person flying with Blue Origin at the age of 82. The record was later broken by William Shatner.
• Oliver Daemen (July 20, 2021): Joes Daemen’s son, Dutch hedge fund manager, runs Somerset Capital Partner. Joes Daemen purchased Blue Origin seats through an online auction, but was unable to travel due to conflicts of arrangements. He reportedly paid $28 million for the flight.
• Jeff Bezos (July 20, 2021): Amazon and Blue co-founder.
• Mark Bezos (July 20, 2021): Jeff Bezos’ young half-brother. Mark Bezos ran his own advertising company in the early 2000s and then became an executive of nonprofits backed by Jeff Bezos, including the Bezos Family Foundation. He is also an early investor at Amazon.